15 Greatest Joker Comics Of All Time
6. The Laughing Fish!
Since the beginning, The Joker’s best plots have used media to target the masses. In 1940 Joker intoned his dark deeds to a tuned-in radio public, Jack Nicholson’s Joker hijacked the TV news, and Heath Ledger’s Joker stirred up citywide chaos with a camcorder.
But really, what medium could be more perfectly suited to spread Joker’s face around than mass marketed fish?
This is bar none the best scheme Joker’s ever hatched: poisoning Gotham’s fish supply with Joker toxin and trying to copyright the grinning results. The creative team behind this 1978 effort is legendary for a reason: Steve Englehart’s scripts nail Joker’s peculiar humor, and Marshall Rogers is one of the best visual storytellers in the business.