Iloved THE KILLING JOKE... It's my favorite. It's the first comic I've ever loved." - Tim Burton I *Easily the greatest Joker story ever told BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is also one of Alan Moore's finest works. If you've read it before, go back and read it again. You owe it to yourself." - IGN a genuinely chilling portrayal of Batman's greatest foe." - Booklist One day … According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop. Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an and to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic toes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horritying ofigin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and the Joker's insanity snap once and for all? ALAN MOORE (WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA) and BRIAN BOLLAND (CAMELOT 3000) take on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, the Joker-and change Batman's world forever. Presented in stark black and white, BATMAN • JIR: THE KILLING JOKE collects BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, the "An Innocent Man" story, and a collection of Bolland's Batman covers.