Comic Title: Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: December 6, 1988 Shipping Date December 6, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #11

Shipping Date December 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #153

Direct Market Date January 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #82

Direct Market Date December 8, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75, #76

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 288
Editor: Mike Gold

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Bob Kane
Inker: Jerry Robinson

Reprinted From:
Batman #4 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #48; next appearance in Batman #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #48; next appearance in Batman #4)

Villain(s)

• Joker (last appearance in Detective Comics #45; next appearance in Batman #5)
• Ajax, Tino, and some acrobats (members of Joker’s crime circus; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• C.R. Darcey and other society members (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Joker has survived his fall into the ocean and starts a new gang based on the circus. The gang performs for rich families to case the victims’ houses. Batman makes the connection with a string of robberies and arrives at another performance of the crime circus. Joker escapes back to his hide-out, but Batman follows him there. Batman escapes a trap, then throws the Joker down a long shaft to his apparent death.