This hardcover book collects nineteen Batman stories in which the Joker is the main villain.
Issues
This hardcover book reprints stories from the following issues:
- Batman #1
- (The Joker, here titled as Batman versus the Joker, from March, 1940)
- Batman #4
- (The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus from December, 1940)
- Detective Comics #168
- (The Man Behind the Red Hood from February, 1951)
- Batman #63
- (The Joker's Crime Costumes! from February, 1951)
- Batman #73
- (The Joker's Utility Belt! from October, 1952)
- World's Finest #61
- (The Crimes of Batman from November, 1952)
- Batman #74
- (The Crazy Crime Clown! from December, 1952)
- World's Finest #88
- (Superman and Batman's Greatest Foes from May, 1957)
- Batman #110
- (Crime-of-the-Month Club! from September, 1957)
- Batman #159
- (The Great Clayface - Joker Feud from November, 1963)
- Batman #163
- (The Joker Jury! from May, 1964)
- The Joker's Happy Victims! (Batman Kellogg's Pop-Tarts Comics)
- (The Joker's Happy Victims! from 1966)
- Batman #251
- (The Joker's Five-Way Revenge! from September, 1973)
- The Brave and the Bold #111
- (Death Has the Last Laugh from March, 1974)
- The Joker #3
- (The Last Ha Ha from October, 1975)
- Detective Comics #475
- (The Laughing Fish from February, 1978)
- Detective Comics #476
- (Sign of the Joker! from April, 1978)
- Batman #321
- (Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker... ! from March, 1980)
This hardcover book also collects a story which was originally printed in the Sunday newspapers in 1948 called The Joker and the Sparrow.
Notes
- This hardcover book includes an introduction by Mike Gold under the title The Best of the Bad: The Joker's Dozen, end notes by Mark Waid under the title Stacking the Deck: The Other Joker Stories, and biographies of notable Joker creators by Brian Augustyn.