An epic sidekick

Everybody knows Harley Quinn as being Joker’s sidekick. But it wasn’t always so – she actually appeared quite late in his life, in 1992’s Batman: The Animated Series. So was there someone else before her?

In the ‘60s, the writers found the perfect answer; if Batman had a Robin, the Joker needed to have an equally skilled companion. And that was Gaggy Gagsworthy, a little person who walked the tightrope at the circus. However, when the flying Graysons arrived, he was sent to be a clown – he resented that and, at one point, he even lashed out at some of his fellow clowns.

Joker spotted him and took him under his wing.

Gaggy Gagsworthy didn’t appear in too many issues. However, he misses the old Joker. According to him, Harley transformed the fun Clown Prince of Crime into a murdering psychopath.