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3. The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge
Batman # 251 (1973)
God, the seventies sure were fantastic for Batman stories, weren’t they?
Like, the common narrative was that good “serious†Batman stories came back with the Miller two-fer of Dark Knight Returns and Year One but that’s simply not true. O’Neil, Adams, and Aparo absolutely brought the caped crusader back to the heights and this is certainly one of the all time best stories of that era.
In the story, The Joker breaks out of prison and, swears revenge, knowing that one of his five man gang ratted him out to the authorities. But he doesn’t know which. So he decides to kill them all. And so it’s a race to see who can prevail. Will Batman track down and save the gang members before Joker can kill them all?
This story is one of the best ever Joker stories and has been collected and adapted numerous times. And is definitively one of the all time classics.
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