15 Greatest Joker Comics Of All Time
14. The Man Who Laughs
This sounds like faint praise, but this comic is admirable in its restraint. It’s a tight and self-contained reimagining of Joker’s first killing spree back in 1940 and Joker’s victims have rarely looked so grotesque. (Those bodies he experimented on and left to rot are the worst.)
Batman’s victory is a small one in the end - it's merely his first defeat of Joker, and we know that he can only look forward to a lifetime’s worth of conflicts.
With how grandiose their feuds would become, it’s cool to see their first struggle played out as a rooftop argument (followed by a swift pummelling obviously).
This comic is a small victory in its own way; a remake that works as well as the original.