The Man Who Laughs Joker
Metal before receiving his own series and serving as the main antagonist in batman superman in 2019 and dc comics year of the villain alongside lex luthor.
The man who laughs joker. He is depicted as a hybrid of both batman and batman s arch enemy joker and is a member of the dark knights. Media release bluewater productions has announced plans to release a new comic book news biography of the joker tearing pages from today s headlines to examine a number of joker related crimes including that of aurora shooter james holmes. The title of this one shot is drawn from the 1869 novel by victor hugo entitled the man who laughs. The plot is based on the joker s original introduction in batman 1 1940.
Veidt s character gwynplaine later became the inspiration for the character of the joker. The man who laughs is a one shot prestige format comic book by ed brubaker and doug mahnke released in february 2005 and intended as a successor to batman. The joker the man who laughs which will be released on june 18th and available in both print and digital formats explores the villain. Phoenix s clown makeup is almost an exact copy.
His first appearance was in the crossover storyline dark nights. Finger s kane s and robinson s versions acknowledge that finger produced an image of actor conrad veidt in character as gwynplaine a man with a disfigured face giving him a perpetual grin in the 1928 film the man who laughs as an inspiration for the joker s appearance and robinson produced a sketch of a joker playing card. The latest onscreen joker joaquin phoenix lacks the permanent grin of his comic book namesake but he may have his own ties to the man who laughs. Both are taken in by the kindly ursus cesare gravina.
It tells the story of batman s first encounter with the joker in post zero hour continuity. The batman who laughs is a fictional character in dc comics. He is a supervillain and the evil counterpart and alternate version of batman within the multiverse.