From supervillain to the star of his own antihero-story movie — the complete history of the Joker from page to screen
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During this transitional period in the character’s history, Bill Finger devised his most frequently cited origin story. Published in 1951,#168 revealed that the Joker was once the Red Hood, a masked criminal who fell into a vat of acid while attempting to escape from Batman. When he emerged from the cauldron, the villain was cursed with green hair, corpse-white skin, and that unnerving perma-grin.
Batman’s primary sidekick Robin fared even worse that same year. In writer Jim Starlin and artist Jim Aparo’sthe Joker brutally beat Jason Todd, the second kid to hold the position of Boy Wonder, with a crowbar before killing him in an explosion. Readers were able to call a hotline to vote for whether Jason lived or died; the Joker himself would have been pleased with the result.
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