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[The One and Only]

I had read an article on the story of the Joker's big comeback,and it had indicated that the Joker featured in Detective was actually Nightwing using a holographic disguise for some operation. And other the Clown Prince of Crime's face hanging on a peg at the issue's end, the Jack Napier hadn't put in an official appearance as of yet in the DCnU.

[wataru]

Post the link to the article, because the year off Joker was away planning his revenge from 9/2011 to 10/2011 is a part of the story.

[The One and Only]

Said article.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39498

[wataru]

Said article.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39498

From the article:
The Joker's first New 52 appearance saw him captured in the pages of "Detective Comics" #1, and issue that ended with Batman's archnemesis voluntarily allowing the Dollmaker to carve off his face while incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. Snyder and Capullo depicted The Joker in "Batman" #1 -- although the issue later revealed it to be an undercover Dick Grayson using holographic technology.

Point proven.

[Tyler]

So I'm looking to get into Batman. I was just gonna watch the Animated Series but the boxsets are like $40-60 and I was like skreeonk that. I remember Jon Leo on the old forums gave me a list of graphic novels to check out but I can't go back and see now. I've read Dark Knight Returns but that's about it and it's not even in the 'official' Batimeline.

[Cimmerian Dragon]

You can buy the animated series volumes for around $20 on Amazon (although vol. 2 is a bit more, for some reason).

[wataru]

So I'm looking to get into Batman. I was just gonna watch the Animated Series but the boxsets are like $40-60 and I was like skreeonk that. I remember Jon Leo on the old forums gave me a list of graphic novels to check out but I can't go back and see now. I've read Dark Knight Returns but that's about it and it's not even in the 'official' Batimeline.

Dude you wanna talk about cash? I dont know if youve heard of Columbia House. It's a movie club that you could order movies from through the mail. They had 'clubs' where they'd send you a VHS tape with episodes from TV shows for ~$30 each. Normaly you'd get 2-3 episodes per show. I belonged to the BTAS club. I had the entire series on like a billion VHS tapes from them. Imagine the dough I put out. I replaced the entire VHS series for DIVX downloads a few years ago.

[Tim85]

So I'm looking to get into Batman. I was just gonna watch the Animated Series but the boxsets are like $40-60 and I was like skreeonk that. I remember Jon Leo on the old forums gave me a list of graphic novels to check out but I can't go back and see now. I've read Dark Knight Returns but that's about it and it's not even in the 'official' Batimeline.

I think that there is also a "Complete Series" release of the Batman animated series.

[miguelnuva]

https://ssl.washingtonpost.com/actmgmt/ ... story.html

Are we seeing the end of the joker characters?

[Tyler]

You can buy the animated series volumes for around $20 on Amazon (although vol. 2 is a bit more, for some reason).

Wow and that's usually the first place I check. Think I'll start with Vol. 1.

[Cimmerian Dragon]

^ Hell yeah! The pilot is one of my favorite episodes.

[miguelnuva]

This is the correct link to my post earlier

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/2 ... 13129.html

[SoleMan]

I guess people haven't been reading it...

The Joker got his face cut off in Detective #1, and hasn't appeared in a comic since. Nightwign was dressed up like him, but other there hasn't been any word from him. As a big Joker fan, I was disappointed, but am happy to hear he will be making his return soon.

[mecha-gino]

Really? Tyler asked some advice and no one helps him? Foreshame! Well Tyler, I'll help you out IF you renounce your nitpicky hatred for the man of steel unless the new comic con footage blew you away with Goyer's and Nolan's awesome writing!!!

But now then, onto what I've read.
-the dark knight returns, I think everyone has read this and tell you it rocks.... Cept for smelly nick.

-Batman Year One, originally this was going to be begins but it never happened.

-The Dark Knight Strikes Again, if you view it how I'm told it's suppose to be a parody/satire on comics today then you may like it along with all star batman and robins as long as it view it like that.

-Batman: Red Rain/Batman: Vampires, it's an elseworld story with Batman alone dealing with Vampires. It's really good and I say check it out.

-Batman Beyond: now I this I think is in two or three volumes right now, one being hush and the other I believe is the industrial revolution but yeah I read the first one and I liked it and it's a great continuation of the original show,

And now for some various others I haven't read but you may like:
-Batman under the red hood,if you like the movie you may like it.

-Batman: Black and white, an anthology series with batman that has various writers and artists some of those are Dennis O' Neil, Paul Dini, and Bruce Timm

-Batman: Birth of the demon, this one I've been meaning to read as it collects the first appearance of my favorite Batman Villain Ra's Al Ghul.

-The various anthology series collecting various batman villain stories, such as Batman vs Two face, Joker: Greatest stories ever told, and this scarecrow one. There's probably a lot more of them, so go find them and check them out.

And IGN should help you out(for once) with their list of titles that might help you out:
http://comics.ign.com/articles/624/624619p1.html

One story I'm interested in reading is speeding bullets, mainly because it's what if Superman's ship landed in Gotham and the Wayne's found him.

Oh and check out some of the new 52 books too and earth one, as I'm told they're good too.

[The One and Only]

Some other trades/collections involving the Dark Knight that I'd recommend would be:

-BATMAN:THE WRATH , written by Mike Barr & Tony Bedard, with art provided by Micheal Golden & Rag Morales. Before Prometheus, there was the WRATH. On the night Bruce Wayne's parents were gunned down by Joe Chill, another young man, the son of two corrupt cops. In the course of a robbery, witnessed his mom and dad killed in a shhotout with a rookie officer named James Gordon. The scarred young man dedicated his life to stopping the forces of law and order. Becoming as well trained, and adept as the Batman. Becoming both a theif and an assassin specializing in taking contracts on law enforcement.

-BATMAN:YEAR TWO, written by Mike Barr, with art by Alan Davis, and Todd MacFarlane. Detailing the second year of Batman's career of crimefighting, the Dark Knight deals with the bloody return of his vigilante predecessor, the REAPER. Willing to kill anyone who gets in his way, mobsters, Batman, and cops alike. Batman has his hindquarters handed to him in the first encounter with the Reaper, forcing him to form an alliance with the mob against the Reaper. The mob assigns their man to assist Batman, a man named Joe Chill.

-Paul Kirk:MANHUNTER, written by Archie Goodwin, and art by Walt Simonson. While not exclusively a Batman story, he does play a part in the tale's cinematic climax. Paul Kirk, Golden Age mystery-man, the Manhunter, and behind the lines assassin in the Second World War. Ends up afterwards being nearly killed pursueing his old passion in Africa of big game hunting when a maddened bull elephant attacks him. He is found by a gathering of scientists known as the Council. On top of saving Kirk's life, one of the Council's Inner Circle, Dr. Oka, a genticist, gives him a rapid healing factor. And also clones Kirk to create an enforcement branch for the Council. After being trained by ninja master Asano Nitobe, he begins to realize that Coucil's goals to save humanity have become corrupted when they order Kirk to kill an Interpol Official. Along with Batman, Nitobe, Interpol Officier Christine St. Claire, and weapons dealer Kolu Mbeya, he wages war against the Council.

[Tyler]

I managed to do a bit of homework on this and I'm wondering if these are right in any way -

Year One
The Man Who Falls
The Monster Men
The Mad Monk
The Man Who Laughs
The Long Halloween
Haunted Knight
Dark Victory
The Killing Joke
A Death in the Family

Obviously there are more but that's as much as I want to piece together now.

[mecha-gino]

I managed to do a bit of homework on this and I'm wondering if these are right in any way -

Year One
The Man Who Laughs
The Long Halloween
Dark Victory
The Killing Joke
A Death in the Family

Obviously there are more but that's as much as I want to piece together now.

Those are the ones I know and heard are good. I've read half of a death in the family and I like it plus you've got a choice of getting it as a hardcover OR as a regular trade.

[SoleMan]

So, was your request for some good Batman stories? My favorite Character is the Joker, so I can recomend a lot of his that a first-timer would probably like:

The Killing Joke (My second favorite comic after Watchmen)
The Man who laughs
Death in the Family
Joker: Devil's advocate
The Joker's five-way revenge (If you can get over the old-school style)
Batman: Lovers and Madmen
Batman: Mad Love (From the Animated series, still less cheesy than the above)
Going Sane
Joker, by Brian Azzerllo. (If you do read this, let me know, I wanna talk about it)

Some other Batman's you might like:
Pretty much anything by Paul Dini
Bane of the Demon (Not really a Batman, but Bane meets Ra's Al Ghul, need I go further?)
Batman: Year One
The Dark Knight (Returns)
The Clayface issue by Alan Moore
Most of the 70's work by Dennis O'Neil. (He was the artiest and worked with a writer whose name escapes me at the moment)

Sorry about the fact that I listed almost half of the things you mentioned, and if it seems waaaaay too intimidating, nerds have a tendency to do that. Anyway, I also wouldn't worry too much about Continuity, and just read them however you feel. If it's supposed to be a specific time-frame (Like the Man who laughs takes place near the beginning of Batman's career, the Killing Joke after a long period of time) It should give you the sense of what's going on. Approach it like you would a Showa Godzilla film.

[The One and Only]

Longtime fans having trouble with the continuity of the DCnU ? Well the following story will not help I'm sorry to say.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-comics-new-52-whos-who-zero-issues.html

[wataru]

I havent read a new issue of DC Comics for 2 months. Sword of Sorcery comes out this month and JLA starts soon. I'll read those two.

And another comic I got into bites the dust - Resurrection Man. ARGH!!!