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Comic book characters have along and storied historyof dyingand coming back to sprightliness , but fans might be surprised to know that Joker , Batman ’s most iconic enemy for nearly a century , dies in the Caped Crusader ’s very first Quran , Batman # 1 . And he go out in an embarrassingly anticlimactic fashion .
The 1940 Holy Scripture features several Batman story , two of which feature the Joker . The introduction of The Joker is precede by a abbreviated history of how Batman came to be who he is , showing us the shooting and subsequent training that fanshave see numberless times by now . We come across The Joker on Gotham ’s airwaves as he terrorizes the city via wireless and declares his plot to kill its elites and steal various precious gems while he ’s at it . After Robin gets kidnapped ( because of course , he does ) and following a serial publication of scuffles , Batman eventually leaves Joker in front of police headquarters and he ’s sent to country prison house . The second account is unrelated to Joker but does feature the foundation of Hugo Strange , as well as Batman ’s first murder in his own standalone al-Qur’an when he kills an on the loose mental patientin a shockingly barbarous manner .
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The next story , The Cat , introduce us to Catwoman for the first clock time , but it ’s the final story , The Joker Returns , that features the clown ’s first death . The Joker Returnssees the villain escaping from prison just two daylight after his seizure , blowing up his cell wall with the chemicals that he … apparentlyalways keeps stored in his delusive back teeth . Joker retrograde the laboratory he has veil underneath a decrepit cemetery and plots his next move , claim to the radiocommunication again because that seems to have been his matter at the time . A ridiculous plot ensues that only could have come from The Golden Age . There ’s poisonous substance - flit - launch telephones , more steal gems , poison playing wit , Joker hide in a sarcophagus , and Batman assaulting police for trying to remove his cowl .
It culminate in a duel between Joker and the Batman in which the former lunges at him with a knife . duck the hit , Joker bounces off a wall and accidentally plunges the vane into his own chest . And so seemingly ends The Dark Knight ’s greatest foe , basically dying in the comical book equivalent of slipping on a banana tree Sir Robert Peel . Laughing at his own death , the comic declares that " The Joker has played his last hand and lose . " Batman leave his still smiling husk on the street as police arrive .
In what may be the quickest turnaround ofa " dead " Joker being revive , a few panels later see police force and medico shocked that the take for granted stiff issomehowstill alive , despite The World ’s Greatest Detective having declared him dead hours ago . One would think that with all his acquired knowledge , Batman would roll in the hay well enough to check for a pulse .
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