([November] 2018)
DC,
2018 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 49.99 USD; 65.99 CAD
- Pages
- 296
- On-sale Date
- 2018-09-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Suggested for Mature Readers
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [circle and serifs]
- ISBN
-
978-1-4012-8412-1
- Barcode
- 9781401284121 54999
- Printer
- Printed in China
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (credited) (editor - original series); Mark Chiarello (credited) (editor - original series); Liz Marsham (credited as Elisabeth Gehrlein) (editor - original series); Michael Eury (credited) (editor - original series); Michael Siglain (credited) (editor - original series); Dan Raspler (credited) (editor - original series); Jeb Woodard (credited) (group editor - collected editions)
- Color
- color
- Binding
- hardcover
- Publishing Format
- collected edition
Issue Notes
Includes the recolored version of the story and the foreword and afterword from the 2008 Deluxe Edition, a full facsimile reprinting of the original edition, the original script, Bolland's "An Innocent Guy" from Batman Black and White #4, and other material.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
[no title indexed]
illustration / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover and front side of front endpage.
Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke The 30th Anniversary Edition
credits, title page / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Title page.
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Man, how cool is this?
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2008 series) ([May] 2008)
-
The Killing Joke
Batman / comic story / 46 pages
- Script
- Alan Moore (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- John Higgins (credited) (original color); Brian Bolland (credited) (reconstructed color)
- Letters
- Richard Starkings (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Barbara Gordon [Batgirl]; Harvey Bullock; Alfred Pennyworth; Joker (also as the Red Hood in flashback); Two-Face (cameo); Penguin (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Batman visits the Joker in Arkham Asylum only to discover he has been replaced by a double. As Batman attempts to track the villain down, the Joker shows up at the house of Commissioner Gordon where he promptly shoots Barbara and captures her father. The Joker takes Jim to a modified carnival where he tries to drive him mad (partially by showing him pictures of his naked and bleeding daughter). Batman arrives and starts beating on the Joker who attempts to reason with him in his own insane fashion. As things wrap up and the police arrive, the Joker finally tells Batman a joke that he gets.
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2008 series) ([May] 2008) which is reprinted
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988) [recolored]
-
Afterword
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2008 series) ([May] 2008)
-
The Killing Joke: The Cover Story
text article / 3 pages
- Script
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Cover process from photo references, to rough, to final cover.
A Killing Joke Retrospective
text article / 4 pages
- Script
- John Higgins (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- John Higgins (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Higgins discusses how he came to color The Killing Joke.
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited, signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) [First Printing] ([July] 1988)
-
Batman: The Killing Joke
credits, title page / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988)
-
The Killing Joke
Batman / comic story / 46 pages
- Script
- Alan Moore (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- John Higgins (credited)
- Letters
- Richard Starkings (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Gotham City Police Department [Harvey Bullock]; Ace the Bat-Hound (photograph); Bat-Girl [Betty Kane] (photograph); Bat-Mite (photograph); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Batwoman (photograph); Barbara Gordon; Commissioner James Gordon; The Joker (villain) (origin in flashback); Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (cameo); Alfred Pennyworth; Red Hood (flashback); Robin [Dick Grayson] (photograph); Two-Face [Harvey Dent] (cameo); Jeannie (flashback); Mrs. Burkiss (flashback)
- Synopsis
- Batman visits the Joker in Arkham Asylum only to discover he has been replaced by a double. As Batman attempts to track the villain down, the Joker shows up at the house of Commissioner Gordon where he promptly shoots Barbara and captures her father. The Joker takes Jim to a modified carnival where he tries to drive him mad (partially by showing him pictures of his naked and bleeding daughter). Batman arrives and starts beating on the Joker who attempts to reason with him in his own insane fashion. As things wrap up and the police arrive, the Joker finally tells Batman a joke that he gets.
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988)
-
[Editorial Credits]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988)
-
[no title indexed]
Batman / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) ([July] 1988)
-
The Killing Joke: The Script
Batman / text story / 136 pages
- Script
- Alan Moore (credited); Brian Bolland (credited) (introduction)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
Includes a few examples of Brian Bolland's original sketches and finished pages.
The Joker
Batman / character profile / 2 pages
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Joker
- Reprints
- from Who's Who in the DC Universe (DC, 1990 series) #13 (October 1991)
-
The Origin of the Joker
The Joker / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Matt Hollingsworth (credited)
- Letters
- Jared K. Fletcher (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Joker (origin); Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Synopsis
- The origin of the Joker.
- Reprints
- from Countdown (DC, 2007 series) #31 (November 2007)
-
[An Innocent Guy]
Batman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Letters
- Ellie de Ville (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Two-Face (cameo); Penguin (cameo); Poison Ivy (cameo); The Terrible Trio [The Fox; The Shark; The Vulture] (cameo)
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2008 series) ([May] 2008) which is reprinted
- from Batman Black and White (DC, 1996 series) #4 (September 1996) [colored]
-
[Preliminary Pencil Sketches for "An Innocent Guy"]
Batman / illustration / 4 pages
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
Art Gallery
illustration / 19 pages
- Script
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- from The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) ([August] 1989)
- from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #96 [Direct Sales] (April 1995)
- from Joker: Last Laugh (DC, 2001 series) #1 [Direct Sales] (December 2001), #6 (January 2002)
- from Cover Story: The DC Comics Art of Brian Bolland (DC, 2011 series) ([December] 2011)
- from Wonder Woman (DC, 2011 series) #41 [Joker 75th Anniversary Cover] (August 2015)
- from Dark Knight III: The Master Race (DC, 2016 series) #1 [Third Eye Comics Brian Bolland Cover] (January 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Covers, promotional images, and sketches.
[Biographies]
text article / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang (credited, signed); Brian Bolland
- Inks
- Dick Sprang (credited, signed); Brian Bolland
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
illustration / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Back side of the rear endpage and the inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
Batman / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Inks
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Colors
- Brian Bolland (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
[Slipcase]
Batman / insert or dust jacket / 0 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Killing Joke (DC, 1988 series) [First Printing] ([July] 1988)
-
Indexer Notes
The cover of the original edition on one side; the reveal of the Red Hood as the Joker from the story on the other.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
[no title indexed]
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
4.
Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke The 30th Anniversary Edition
-
5.
[Editorial Credits]
-
6.
Table of Contents
-
7.
Introduction
-
8.
The Killing Joke
Batman -
9.
Afterword
-
10.
The Killing Joke: The Cover Story
-
11.
A Killing Joke Retrospective
-
12.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
13.
Batman: The Killing Joke
-
14.
[no title indexed]
-
15.
The Killing Joke
Batman -
16.
[no title indexed]
-
17.
[Editorial Credits]
-
18.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
19.
The Killing Joke: The Script
Batman -
20.
The Joker
Batman -
21.
The Origin of the Joker
The Joker -
22.
[An Innocent Guy]
Batman -
23.
[Preliminary Pencil Sketches for "An Innocent Guy"]
Batman -
24.
Art Gallery
-
25.
[Biographies]
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26.
[no title indexed]
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27.
[no title indexed]
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28.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
29.
[Slipcase]
Batman
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- Juan Gonzalez
- Jim Van Dore
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