The Joker plans his own birthday party and invites all of Gotham to watch the explosive celebration with some of Batman's closest allies. It is up to the Caped Crusader to find the event before the fireworks start.

Reprints

from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #321 (March 1980) [recolored]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Mark Waid
Pencils: ?
Inks: ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Reprints

in The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) ([August] 1989)
in Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Longmeadow Press, 1990 series) ([November] 1990)

Indexer Notes

Afterword illustrated with various reprinted covers & panels.

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Brian Augustyn
Letters: typeset

Genre

biography

Reprints

in The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) ([August] 1989)
in Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Longmeadow Press, 1990 series) ([November] 1990)

Indexer Notes

Biographies of the stories' creators.

Editing

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
The Joker
1. The Joker's Dozen
2. [Batman vs. the Joker]
Batman
3. The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus
Batman
4. [The Joker and the Sparrow]
Batman
5. The Man Behind the Red Hood
Batman
6. The Joker's Crime Costumes
Batman
7. The Joker's Utility Belt
Batman
8. The Crimes of Batman
Batman
9. The Crazy Crime Clown
Batman
10. Superman's and Batman's Greatest Foes
Superman and Batman
11. Crime-of-the-Month Club
Batman
12. The Great Clayface-Joker Feud
Batman
13. The Joker Jury
Batman
14. The Joker's Happy Victims!
Batman
15. The Joker's Five-Way Revenge
Batman
16. Death Has the Last Laugh
Batman
17. The Last Ha Ha
Joker
18. The Laughing Fish
Batman
19. The Sign of the Joker
Batman
20. Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker--
Batman
21. Stacking the Deck: The Other Joker Stories
22. Creating the Greatest: The Men Behind the Mask

This issue was modified by, among others

Boris Ammerlaan
Peter Croome
Lou Mazzella
Antonio Pontes Junior
Ramon Schenk
Jim Stangas
Lee Stephan
Jim Van Dore
Gregg Whitmore

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The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1988 [February 1989])

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Joker / cover / 1 page (report information)

The Joker's Dozen (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[Batman vs. the Joker] (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus (Table of Contents: 3)

Batman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

[The Joker and the Sparrow] (Table of Contents: 4)

Batman / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Man Behind the Red Hood (Table of Contents: 5)

Batman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Joker's Crime Costumes (Table of Contents: 6)

Batman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

The Joker's Utility Belt (Table of Contents: 7)

Batman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Crimes of Batman (Table of Contents: 8)

Batman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Crazy Crime Clown (Table of Contents: 9)

Batman / comic story / 9.67 pages (report information)

Superman's and Batman's Greatest Foes (Table of Contents: 10)

Superman and Batman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Crime-of-the-Month Club (Table of Contents: 11)

Batman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

The Great Clayface-Joker Feud (Table of Contents: 12)

Batman / comic story / 15.34 pages (report information)

The Joker Jury (Table of Contents: 13)

Batman / comic story / 12.67 pages (report information)

The Joker's Happy Victims! (Table of Contents: 14)

Batman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

The Joker's Five-Way Revenge (Table of Contents: 15)

Batman / comic story / 22.5 pages (report information)

Death Has the Last Laugh (Table of Contents: 16)

Batman / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

The Last Ha Ha (Table of Contents: 17)

Joker / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Laughing Fish (Table of Contents: 18)

Batman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

The Sign of the Joker (Table of Contents: 19)

Batman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker-- (Table of Contents: 20)

Batman / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Stacking the Deck: The Other Joker Stories (Table of Contents: 21)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 6 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Creating the Greatest: The Men Behind the Mask (Table of Contents: 22)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told

(1988 [February 1989])