Issue Details

Issue	#[nn]
Published	[December] 1988
Cover Price	19.95 USD
Pages	272
Editing	Mike Gold

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Kyle Baker
Inks	Kyle Baker

5 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Joker's Dozen"

Script	Mike Gold
Notes	Text introduction illustrated with various reprinted covers & panels.
Reprinted	in Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Longmeadow Press, 1990 series) #nn

13 page Batman story "Batman vs. the Joker"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane
Inks	Jerry Robinson
Colors	Tatjana Wood
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #1 (Spring 1940)

13 page Batman story "The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane
Inks	Jerry Robinson
Colors	Adrienne Roy
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #4 (Winter 1941)

14 page Batman story "The Joker and the Sparrow"

Genre	superhero
Script	Alvin Schwartz +
Pencils	Jack Burnley
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Nansi Hoolahan
Reprinted	from Batman Sunday comic strips from October 28 - December 9, 1945 (#104-110)

13 page Batman story "The Man Behind the Red Hood"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger +
Pencils	Lew Schwartz *
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Anthony Tollin
Notes	Reprinted from reprint used in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #213
Reprinted	from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #168 (February 1951)

12 page Batman story "The Joker's Crime Costumes"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger +
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Greg Theakston
Reprinted	from Batman (1940 series) #63 (February-March 1951)

12 page Batman story "The Joker's Utility Belt"

Genre	superhero
Script	David Vern
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Glenn Whitmore
Notes	David Vern credit from O'Hearn.
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #73 (October-November 1952)

12 page Batman story "The Crimes of Batman"

Genre	superhero
Script	David Vern
Pencils	Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures); Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Daniel Vozzo
Notes	Credits for script, pencils, and inks from index of original appearance.
Reprinted	from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #61 (November-December 1952)

10 page Batman story "The Crazy Crime Clown"

Genre	superhero
Script	Alvin Schwartz +
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Glenn Whitmore
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #74 (December 1952-January 1953)

12 page Superman and Batman story "Superman's and Batman's Greatest Foes"

Genre	superhero
Script	Edmond Hamilton +
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris *
Colors	Glenn Whitmore
Reprinted	from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #88 (May-June 1957)

8 page Batman story "Crime-of-the-Month Club"

Genre	superhero
Script	Dave Wood +
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Shelley Eiber
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #110 (September 1957)

16 page Batman story "The Great Clayface-Joker Feud"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger +
Pencils	Sheldon Moldoff *
Inks	Charles Paris *
Colors	Helen Vesik
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #159 (November 1963)

13 page Batman story "The Joker Jury"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger +
Pencils	Charles Paris *
Inks	Charles Paris
Colors	Jerry Serpe
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #163 (May 1964)

6 page Batman story "The Joker's Happy Victim"

Genre	superhero
Script	E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils	Carmine Infantino
Inks	Murphy Anderson
Colors	Shelley Eiber
Reprinted	from Joker's Happy Victims!, The [Kelloggs Pop-Tart Comics] (DC, 1966 series) #nn

13 page Batman story "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge"

Genre	superhero
Script	Denny O'Neil
Pencils	Neal Adams
Inks	Dick Giordano
Colors	Tom Ziuko
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #251 (September 1973)

18 page Batman story "Death Has the Last Laugh"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bob Haney
Pencils	Jim Aparo
Inks	Jim Aparo
Colors	Bob LeRose
Reprinted	from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #111 (February-March 1974)

18 page Joker story "The Last Ha Ha"

Characters	vs. the Creeper
Genre	superhero
Script	Denny O'Neil
Pencils	Ernie Chan [as Ernie Chua]
Inks	Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Colors	Joe Orlando
Editing	Julius Schwartz
Notes	Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (May 2007).
Reprinted	from The Joker (DC, 1975 series) #3 (September-October 1975)

17 page Batman story "The Laughing Fish"

Genre	superhero
Script	Steve Englehart
Pencils	Marshall Rogers
Inks	Terry Austin
Colors	Petra Scotese
Letters	Ben Oda
Reprinted	from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #475 (February 1978)

17 page Batman story "The Sign of the Joker"

Genre	superhero
Script	Steve Englehart
Pencils	Marshall Rogers
Inks	Terry Austin
Colors	Petra Scotese
Letters	Milton Snapinn
Reprinted	from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #476 (March-April 1978)

18 page Batman story "Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker--"

Genre	superhero
Script	Len Wein
Pencils	Walt Simonson
Inks	Dick Giordano
Colors	Julianna Ferriter
Letters	Ben Oda
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #321 (March 1980)

6 page text article "Stacking the Deck: The Other Joker Stories"

Script	Mark Waid
Notes	Afterword illustrated with various reprinted covers & panels.
Reprinted	in Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Longmeadow Press, 1990 series) #nn

5 page biography (nonfictional) "Creating the Greatest: The Men Behind the Mask"

Script	Brian Augustyn
Notes	Biographies of the stories' creators.
Reprinted	in Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Longmeadow Press, 1990 series) #nn