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Dr. Chaos
12-01-2007, 02:03 AM
How many storylines have there been where The Joker died or was thought to finally be dead?

He's the one Batman villain I can't ever see going away but I'm curious to hear if anyone has honestly tried to off the Batman villain goldmine?
OverMaster
12-01-2007, 05:19 AM
Before I give a longer reply, can we count Elseworlds, or not?

Also, IIRC, there was a 'Many Deaths of Joker' thread here a while ago. It had quite the complete list.
Choppa
12-01-2007, 09:56 AM
IIRC, in some story before Murderer" Nightwing strangled him and "killed" him. But then he came back to life.
The Batman
12-01-2007, 10:11 AM
Nightwing I believe either suffocated him or something similar but then revived him with CPR.
OverMaster
12-01-2007, 10:21 AM
IIRC, in some story before Murderer" Nightwing strangled him and "killed" him. But then he came back to life.

That'd be the Joker: Last Laugh crossover.
Dr. Chaos
12-01-2007, 01:25 PM
Before I give a longer reply, can we count Elseworlds, or not?
Nah, I'm referring to main continuity.
shaxper
12-01-2007, 08:40 PM
Joker died in his second appearance (Batman #1) and came back in the very next issue. Since then, I think it's been pretty much assumed that he'll never stay down. The only time DC ever seemed serious about convincing us that Mr. J was dead was after his apparent death at the end of "Death in the Family." Joker didn't appear again for several years after, but I don't think anyone was seriously convinced that he was dead. Even Batman was uncomfortable with the fact that he could not locate the body after Joker apparently bought it.
Captain Jim
12-02-2007, 03:25 PM
Nightwing I believe either suffocated him or something similar but then revived him with CPR.

Actually, I believe it was Batman who revived him. Nightwing tried to do him in after he mistakenly believed that the Joker had killed Tim Drake.
filthysize
12-02-2007, 07:24 PM
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff265/DoopPhotobucket3/batman.jpg
PunisherFan
12-03-2007, 09:00 PM
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff265/DoopPhotobucket3/batman.jpg

where was that from? Thats ridiculous
filthysize
12-03-2007, 09:04 PM
From a LOTDK one-off story a couple of years back.




SPOILER: Joker hid a bomb somewhere and Batman has to know where it is. It's funny out of context, though.
NightBirdFlying
12-05-2007, 10:52 AM
From a LOTDK one-off story a couple of years back.




SPOILER: Joker hid a bomb somewhere and Batman has to know where it is. It's funny out of context, though.

lol, yeah, it's classic out of context.:)
Joe Night
12-05-2007, 06:24 PM
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff265/DoopPhotobucket3/batman.jpg

Happen to know the exact ish?
CYOTI
12-05-2007, 08:00 PM
And there was also the time that Bats had to resurrect Joker using the Lazarus Pits, a story also in LOTDK.
The Joker
12-08-2007, 08:14 PM
Joker died in his second appearance (Batman #1) and came back in the very next issue. Since then, I think it's been pretty much assumed that he'll never stay down. The only time DC ever seemed serious about convincing us that Mr. J was dead was after his apparent death at the end of "Death in the Family." Joker didn't appear again for several years after, but I don't think anyone was seriously convinced that he was dead. Even Batman was uncomfortable with the fact that he could not locate the body after Joker apparently bought it.
Technically, Joker did not die in Batman #1. Though he was originally intended to kick the bucket, that notion was changed at the last minute, and thus we got a final panel exclaiming that The Joker was infact, alive!

Joker seemingly meeting his death, was an early story telling idea in alot of early Joker stories where at the end of each said story, The Joker's death seemed to be at hand. Though always questionable.

As far as Joker's mortality rate goes, he did indeed die in Detective #64 "The Joker walks the last Mile" via the electric chair. Needless to say, he was brought back to life in the same very issue.
dreyga2000
12-08-2007, 08:46 PM
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff265/DoopPhotobucket3/batman.jpg

Wow I literally fell to the floor crying when I saw that. BEST laugh I have had in years.
mohammedali
12-10-2007, 06:05 AM
Let's not foget the most recent... the issue before OYL. Joker blows up a pile of explosives he's sitting on. There's no way he would have servived, yet he's still there.