One of the smashing lossesBatmanever meet was the death ofJason Todd , the 2nd Robin , at the hands of the Joker . This tragedy would switch Batman forever and the change continued to burble once Todd returned to life and presume his young vigilante personal identity as theRed Hood . Todd has since face his manslayer and one can only wonder if Jason think of the time he   preserve theJoker ’s life and how dissimilar his life may have been had he not intervened .

InDetective Comics # 570written by Mike Barr and illustrated byAlan Davisand Paul Neary , Batman and Robin are looking for theJokerwho has his love interestCatwoman . After getting information from an witnesser in the kind of bar you ’d only find in Gotham , we find Joker working with a huffy MD to scramble Catwoman ’s brain in parliamentary procedure to get Batman ’s secret identicalness . The function not only give the Joker a name but retrovert Catwoman back to her previous criminal mentality . After an old fashioned railway car chase with the Bat , the Joker and Catwoman attack the house of the Bensons , whom the patriarch is accused of being Batman with his family ’s life on the line should he not concede . When the truth that Catwoman may have given him the haywire name , Batman and Robin swoop in to keep enter the Clarence Day ( or night ) .   While they are successful in direct down the Joker and saving the hostages , Catwoman refuses Batman ’s offer of rehabilitation and escapes once again an foeman or else of an friend .

The defeat Joker ca n’t help but razz his perpetual nemesis about his loss and Batman is not in the mode . Taking out his frustration and anger on this person who does not care about the liveliness he ruins on a daily basis , Batman ’s unchecked blows could have been lethal if not for Robin ’s interference .

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The creative squad involved   ingest us through a Gotham that feels like a mish - mosh of classic and mod age Gotham where the scope is colorful , the action mechanism is nimble and easygoing and everything seems to wrap up with a great big bow at the ending . The report shows Batman and Joker ’s give - and - take relationship , where Joker has no trouble messing with someone ’s mental state if it ’ll give him the winning advantage against the Dark Knight and well barf aside others when they ’ve outlived their design to him . Although defeated by Batman and the Boy Wonder , he gleefully ca n’t help fray salt in Batman ’s emotional passing , because any victory over the Caped Crusader is worth smiling over .

It would n’t be the first metre Batman loses ascendence and tries to stick the Joker to a bloody pulp . But , as always his support system of authentic allies draw him back from the darkness . Robin calms him down by reminding him that although he lost Catwoman , he did manage to save up the Bensons ' and that has to count for something . Although this one - shot adventure resolve , it has a twinge of acrid satire left behind consider what we have sex about Jason ’s demise at the hands of the Joker . Unaware   of the rough andbloody futurein store for him , Jason Toddperformed a case of good deed that you may only find in Gotham :   one that comes back and bites you in the ass or in his case run into you repeatedly with a pry .

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