10 Things You Didn't Know About The Joker

4. The Long Lost Live Action Joker

Besides Romero, The Joker has been lucky enough to be blessed with some of the greatest actors of their generation in his live action incarnations. The peerless Jack Nicholson portrayed him as a devil in the pale moonlight for the first Tim Burton movie, Heath Ledger gave the performance of a career (and, sadly, his last) in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight, and Mark Hamill surprised everybody by putting in the definitive version of the character in the animated series and video games. Who knew that guy could act? Certainly not anybody who's seen basically anything else he's appeared in.

One of the lesser known live action versions of The Joker appeared in one of the lesser known Batman spin-offs. The Birds Of Prey comic book saw a trio of female Batman supporting characters - Huntress, Black Canary, and former Batgirl Barbara Gordon - teaming up to start their own crime-fighting group. It inspired a short-lived TV series of the same name in the early noughties, with the Dark Knight himself making only a fleeting appearance in an early episode. Alongside him was The Joker himself, doing battle with Batman, and played by Roger Stoneburner. Whoever that is.