Comic Title: Millennium Edition:Batman 1 (#60)
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 2001
On Sale Date: December 20, 2000 Direct Market Date December 6, 2000
Source: Previews, Vol. 10 #10 (#142)

Direct Market Date December 20, 2000
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 20, 2000

Direct Market Date December 20, 2000
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: December 20

Direct Market Date December 20, 2000
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of December 22, 2000

Copyright Date December 8, 2000
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 2000

Cover Price: $3.95
Page Count: 64
Editor: Adam Philips

Title: "The Joker Returns"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Bob Kane

Reprinted From:
Batman #1 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #40)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #40)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #32; next appearance in New York World's Fair Comics (#2))

Villain(s)

• Joker (last appearance in Batman #1; next appearance in Batman #2)

Other Character(s)

• Police Chief Chalmers and Edgar Martin (a public opponent of the Joker; die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
The cover of Detective Comics #40 greatly resembles the splash page of this story and may have been intended as the cover had this story appeared in Detective Comics instead of Batman.

Synopsis:
The Joker escapes jail using an explosive hidden inside his tooth. He continues his string of jewel thefts and strange killings. Batman encounters him at one such robbery, but the Harlequin of Hate gets the best of him. Batman recovers before the police can remove his mask, but the Joker has already escaped.

Batman then plants a trap for the Joker, by baiting him to steal a priceless ruby. The Joker shows up and tangles with the Dynamic Duo. While struggling with Batman, Joker is stabbed by his own knife and left for dead by the Caped Crusaders. The police find the body and a doctor determines that the Joker lives on.