Between his box-office-smash solo movie, the ascendancy of the Joker/Batman hybrid the Batman Who Laughs, DC’s Black Label imprint being awash in Joker explorations, and the prominence of his ex-girlfriend Harley Quinn, the Clown Prince of Crime has never had this kind of cultural cache.īut does he have enough cultural cache to be a supervillain with his own successful comic book series? Which happened once in 1975 for nine issues, but never again? With DC’s new comic The Joker hitting stands this week, it’s time to find out. We live in a society an era where the Joker is a big deal, and a big draw.
