What is The Joker: Greatest Stories Ever Told?

[whiteoleander]

Okay, so I go to buy Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told. It was published in 1997 and has a bunch of reviews that explain pretty well what it consists of. But then I find The Joker: Greatest Stories Ever Told, which has no reviews and came out June of 2008. I thought it was a reissue, but I checked the page numbers. The older compilation has almost 100 more pages than the newer one. My question is this: does anybody own the newer compilation or know what it contains? I know that the earlier compilation focused mostly on the 50's and 60's with some stories from the 70's and 80's. Is this newer material? Is it the older compilation chopped down?

Any help would be appreciated!

[Nefarius]

I think that the old one was out of print.The new one is good if you don't have the Greatest Joker's stories ever told but still it's very poor compare to the original.

[Mon-el]

I own The Greatest Joker Stories ever told, and it came out in 1988, in hardcover. It is the one with 288 pages.

The one in your first link.

[whiteoleander]

Originally Posted by Nefarius

I think that the old one was out of print.The new one is good if you don't have the Greatest Joker's stories ever told but still it's very poor compare to the original.

Does it have any stories that the original doesn't, or is it just stories that were in the original?

[The Joker]

Originally Posted by whiteoleander

Okay, so I go to buy Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told. It was published in 1997 and has a bunch of reviews that explain pretty well what it consists of. But then I find The Joker: Greatest Stories Ever Told, which has no reviews and came out June of 2008. I thought it was a reissue, but I checked the page numbers. The older compilation has almost 100 more pages than the newer one. My question is this: does anybody own the newer compilation or know what it contains? I know that the earlier compilation focused mostly on the 50's and 60's with some stories from the 70's and 80's. Is this newer material? Is it the older compilation chopped down?

Any help would be appreciated!

This year's "Greatest Joker stories" TPB features:

BATMAN #1, 66, 73, 110, 321, and 613, DETECTIVE COMICS #332, 475, 613, BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE VOL. 2, BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN #4 and BATMAN ADVENTURES ANNUAL #1!

Where the older older version you make reference to includes:

Batman 1, Batman 4, Reprint of a Batman Sunday comic strip adventure.This involves Joker starting a rivalry with the Sparrow for the title of Batman’s greatest foe, Detective 168, Batman 63, Batman 73, World’s Finest 61, Batman 74, World’s Finest 88, Batman 110, Batman 159, Batman 163, Batman 251, Brave & Bold 111, The Joker 3, Detective 475-476, Batman 321, and a 6 page overview written by Mark Waid.