The man who would become the Joker is an unnamed lab assistant who quits his job at a chemical company to become a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably. However, Joker is lost in thoughts and he starts remembering memories from a past life. Joker is looking to buy an abandoned amusement park and after he checks the whole place, he kills the owner and claims the park as his own. Batman questions the man about the location of the Joker, who has escaped Arkham and is on the loose. Batman notices that he has white stains on his hands and grabs the man in front of him, who is just a man dressed and wearing make-up to look like the Joker.
Joker doesn't move and keeps playing with the cards, and Batman grabs the clown's arm, infuriated. The Dark Knight tells Joker that the constant madness of their lives must end, or otherwise one of them will surely die at the hands of the other. The Joker is sitting alone in his cell, playing with a deck of cards as Batman sits at the opposite end of the table. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends.A concerned Batman visits Arkham Asylum and goes to Joker's cell. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. super-villain, The Joker-and changes Batman's world forever. ALAN MOORE (WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA) and BRIAN BOLLAND (CAMELOT 3000) take on the origin of comics' greatest. Presented in stark black and white, BATMAN NOIR- THE KILLING JOKE collects BATMAN- THE KILLING JOKE, "An Innocent Man" story, and a collection of Bolland's Batman covers.
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