The Joker is a comic book series published by the comic book publishing company DC Comics starring the supervillain the Joker. It ran for nine issues from May–June 1975 to September–October 1976, with a tenth previously unpublished issue released in October 2019.
In 2021, it was relaunched as part of DC's Infinite Frontier relaunch following Dark Nights: Death Metal conclusion.
Publication history
Dennis O'Neil, who wrote the first issue of the series, recounted that "I stopped by Julie [Schwartz, Batman editor]'s office, and he said, 'We're going to do a Joker book'. I know that alarms went off, I could sense the problems that such a thing would entail...but it was a job".[1] The series was launched in May 1975 by O'Neil and artist Irv Novick.[2]