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Batman: The Man Who Laughs
by: Ed Brubaker

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401216221
ISBN: 1401216226
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: January 30, 2008
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Sales Rank: 6382
Studio: DC Comics

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Product Description:
Witness Batmans historic first encounters with his deadliest foe, The Joker, in this hardcover volume featuring two tales written by Ed Brubaker (GOTHAM CENTRAL, Captain America), winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Writer.A mysterious homicidal maniac is murdering prominent citizens of Gotham City, each time leaving a ghastly grin on the victims' lifeless faces. Batman soon tracks down the killer: The Joker!This volume gives readers new insight into the early encounters between Batman and The Joker that led the Clown Prince of Crime down the path to insanity.Guest-starring original Green Lantern Alan Scott.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- An Odd Collection
Buy this book to read Ed Brubaker and Doug mahnke excellent redux of the Joker's first encounter with batman. In a shocking turn, DC hires a great artist to do a high profile Batman tale. I only fault this story on being too short.
The Man Who Laughs was orignally published as a 48 page soft cover graphic novel, but deserves the hardcover format. Sadly, the cover graphics are not very well done. The white spine with the ugly blue at the bottom doesn't look good on the book shelf, particularly next to it's natural companion, the recently released Killing Joke hardcover.
As a filler, a Batman/Golden Age Green Lantern story is also randomely reprinted here. This story originally appeared in Detective Comics which Mr. Brubaker wrote for a little over a year. I remember his run as well written (as most of his work is), but laden with poor fill-in art unworthy of his scripts. The artwork by Mike Lilly is just ... Read More

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- My Favorite Joker Story
Don't get me wrong, I did like "The Killing Joke". But I think that this story is so much better. The Killing Joke seemed so rushed to me, and this one didn't feel that way at all. I read the first joker story from Batman #1 (1940) before I read this, just because I wanted to see where the joker started. I liked the story a lot, and thought then that a modern version would be great. Well then I heard about this "The Man Who Laughs" and knew right then that I needed to get it. I looked online and found out that it was out of print, I couldn't even get the stores to order it. Then I went to my local comic book store and they had 4 copies laying right there. I bought it right away, after I read it I was so surprised, they kept the same story from the original and added more flavor to it, more plot. Needless to say, I love this book. This is when Gotham learned to fear The Joker.

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- One of the Greatest Batman Graphic Novels?
I bought this title for a few reasons:

1) Amazon had a great price of 13.59 and free shipping on combined orders over $35. The original prestige edition was 48 pages (only $5 or so) and sold out a long time ago and now sells for over $50.

2) It was ranked #22 on a list of the "25 Greatest Batman Graphic Novels".

3) Heath Ledger's Joker in the movie "The Dark Knight" is partially based on this story.

Overall, the Joker story was pretty good. However, I didn't like the art style that much. As noted by another reviewer, the story ends abruptly and the final fight betweent Batman and the Joker is anti-climatic.

As I didn't grow up with the original Green Lantern, I didn't like the character that much. However, the 2nd half of the story does delve into the detective aspect of Batman and contrasts it with the Green Lantern.

Overall, to me ... Read More

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- A Good Re-Telling Of An Old Joker Tale
I'm surprised that none of the reviewers seemed to recognize that this is a re-telling of one of the first Joker stories ever told. "Batman vs. The Joker" (Batman #1, 1940). In the original story The Joker kills the rich men to enforce a shakedown of other rich men. Here, his sociopathy is more apparent because he's killing for killing's sake. I like what they've done with it.

The bonus Alan Scott/Green Lantern story is truly great!

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