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" We went on an in-store tour right when the sixth Joker Card came out.
Ero the Joker saw its first performance outside Yugoslavia in Brno, Czechoslovakia, translated into Czech in 1936, and after that it came back to the National Theater ( Narodno pozorište ) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on April 17, 1937.
When a time portal opens and it was first thought to be Batman coming to Kamandi's aid, it was actually Joker who came to Misfit's aid and they defeat Kamandi and the Tiger Men.
The wheels contained various dollar amounts ( generally $ 5 –$ 50 in each window ), with a Joker in the third window tripling the value of the first two if it came up ( and giving that contestant 15 seconds to come up with as many correct answers as possible ).
Though Kane claimed he and writer Bill Finger came up with the idea for the Joker, most comic historians credit Robinson for the iconic villain, modeled after Conrad Veidt in the 1928 movie, The Man Who Laughs.
In Hugo Strange's interview tape that revolved around Joker, it was mentioned that Joker got his Red Hood outfit from Carmine Falcone's men when it came to robbing the Ace Chemicals Plant which led to Joker's transformation during the fight with Batman.

Joker and be
" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.
At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.
Chaplin's half-brother Sydney Chaplin directed and starred in a 1921 film called King, Queen, Joker in which, like Charlie, he played the dual role of a barber and ruler of a country who is about to be overthrown.
The Joker twists his neck until his spine breaks completely, taunting Batman as he dies with the knowledge that he will be charged with a murder he couldn't bring himself to commit.
Part 2 will be released in 2013, with Peter Weller of Robocop fame voicing Batman, and Michael Emerson voicing the Joker.
Joker evades Batman, Cap, Bucky, and Robin and delivers it to the Skull, but is horrified when he learns that the Skull is a Nazi ( saying " I may be a criminal lunatic but I'm an American criminal lunatic !").
Any one Joker card used within a meld must be identified as one card of appropriate rank and suit.
At times, the Jokers will each be colored to match the colors used for suits ; there will be a red Joker, and a black Joker.
In games where the jokers may need to be compared, the red, full-color, or larger-graphic Joker usually outranks the black, monochrome, or smaller-graphic one.
The Joker can be an extremely beneficial, or an extremely harmful, card.
They are either " junk " cards playable anytime that cannot win a trick, or they count as the two highest trumps ( the two Jokers must be differentiable ; the " big Joker " outranks the " little Joker ").
The type number of a Bicycle deck can be found both on the bottom of the deck box and on the stone of the Joker artwork.
It also makes Scarecrow the fourth Batman villain, after Two-Face, Joker and Catwoman, to appear in at least three live action Batman films and the only one to be played by the same actor in all appearances.
Barbara Gordon speculates Crane may be alive and manipulating Batman to become the " Identity Thief ", while the Joker also comments Scarecrow had survived the previous game.
In the " Emperor Joker " storyline, the all-powerful Joker creates an alternate Riddler, known as Enigma, to be a member of the Joker's League of Anarchy along with alternate versions of Poison Ivy and Bizarro.
In the end, Bruce says, the group knew what the sixth Joker ’ s Card would be because they've " said it all along.
At the same time, this character was meant to be different from other Batman villains like the Joker in that she was never a killer or evil.
Jokers represent the card of the rank being played in each round ( if the first player played Kings, then a Joker represents a King, meaning there are 12 possible Kings to be played in that round.
Initially, Joker appears as calm, reassuring, and easy-going as ever, but as the series progresses he gets more violent and high-strung, revealed to be an elitist who holds the same " human selection " principles as the I-Jin ( the villains of the OVA ).

Joker and represented
Normally, the Benny is represented with a Joker or the two of spades.
However, unlike with the classic version where contestants went " off the board " and chose any of the categories in the round, Jokers only represented categories on the wheels and the value of the question had to be taken for $ 50 with one Joker and $ 100 with either a pair and a Joker or two Jokers and a category.

Joker and clown
Tracking the image of the demented or deviant clown across popular culture, Dery analyzes the " Pogo the Clown " persona of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy ; the obscene clowns of the neo-situationist Cacophony Society ; the Joker ( of " Batman " Fame ); the grotesque art of R. K. Sloane ; the sick-funny Bobcat Goldthwaite comedy Shakes the Clown ; and Stephen King's It.
The way Krusty removes the clown make-up from his face resembles the way the Joker removes his make-up in the 1989 film Batman.
Mera Naam Joker is a film about a clown who must make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows.
Mera Naam Joker is the story of Raju, whose father was considered the best circus clown ever.
He manages to infiltrate the JLA headquarters, and traps the team in fantasy realms of their own creation-ranging from Kal-El as the Green Lantern of Sector 2813 on a still-existent Krypton, a now-retired Bruce Wayne going back into action when Tim Drake and his son face the Joker as the clown is dying of cancer, Aquaman in a time where Earth has been virtually flooded, and a powerless Wonder Woman facing Nazi archaeologists unleashing demons -, intending to siphon off the energies of their inevitable victory in order to increase his power.

Joker and court
The Joker is usually depicted as a court jester.

Joker and jester
Though the inspiration for using the " jester " imagery on the joker may have derived from the Fool card, they have differing origins as stated above ; the Tarot deck has included the Fool since its invention in the 15th century while the Joker is a relatively recent ( re ) addition to the French / Anglo-American 52-card deck.

Joker and by
He does fight the Joker until the battle was interrupted by an attack by Desaad's Parademons.
" " The Letter " contained the nonsense lyric, " the ' puppetutes ' of love ," which was later picked up by the Steve Miller Band as " the pompatus of love " and used in their song " The Joker ".
The extras feature color production footage shot by Chaplin ’ s half-brother Sydney, deleted barbershop sequence from Chaplin ’ s 1919 film Sunnyside, barbershop sequence from Sydney Chaplin ’ s 1921 film King, Queen, Joker, and The Tramp and the Dictator ( 2001 ), Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft ’ s documentary paralleling the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, including interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and others.
While the police, now led by the anti-vigilante Commissioner Ellen Yindel, attack Batman, the Joker murders everyone in the television studio ( including Wolper ) and escapes.
Wolper is convinced that the Joker and Two-Face are both really victims of Batman's crusade – claiming that Batman drives them to become criminals by assuming an ideological image that they feel compelled to counter.
His attempts to treat Two-Face meet with failure, however, and he ends up murdered by the Joker along with the entire audience of a late night talk show when he is manipulated into bringing the Joker out in public as an example of Batman's ' victims '.
Game Show Network also aired a children's game show block at this time, highlighted by Joker!
In the popular comic by DC Comics, as well as three Batman movies ( 1966, 1989 and The Dark Knight ) and the TV series, The Joker is the supervillain nemesis of Batman and is often portrayed as having a rather " Dark and Twisted " jester-like sense of humor whose theme of practical jokes almost always holds death as the punchline during his " performances ".
* Y Digrifwr: Casgliad o gampiau a dichellion Thomas Jones o Dregaron yn Sir Aberteifi ; yr hwn sydd yn cael ei adnobod yn gyffredin wrth yr enw Twm Sion Catti (" The Joker: a collection of exploits and tricks of Thomas Jones of Tregaron in Cardiganshire, commonly known by the name of Twm Sion Catti "): pamphlet published in 1844.
The new character made regular appearances in Batman related comic books until 1988, when the character was murdered by the Joker in A Death in the Family ( 1989 ).
Readers voted " yes " by a small margin ( 5, 343 to 5, 271 ) and Todd was subsequently murdered by the Joker in the storyline, A Death in the Family, in which the psychopath beat the youngster severely with a crowbar, and left him in a warehouse rigged with a bomb.
It was followed up by another series Robin II: Joker's Wild which pitted Tim against his predecessor's murderer the Joker.
Sacro e censura nel cinema di Pier Paolo Pasolini ( Edizioni Joker, 2009 ) by Erminia Passannanti, ISBN 978-88-7536-252-2
This is compensated by declaring the extra player as ' Joker ', who gets to bat for both the teams.
For the soundtrack of The Dark Knight, Zimmer decided to represent the character of The Joker by a single note played on the cello by his long-time colleague Martin Tillman.
He was briefly considered for the role of The Joker by director Tim Burton and screenwriter Sam Hamm for the 1989 film Batman.
For this purpose, each player may rearrange any or all melds on the table, including, if necessary, by reassigning the identification of Joker cards ; provided all cards on the table form melds eventually, in completion of the placement.
* In Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman, the character of Jack Napier ( who later and as a result of this event becomes the Joker ), played by Jack Nicholson, prominently wears black leather gloves during his robbery of the Axis Chemicals business office.
Before that, he was briefly considered for the role of the Joker by Tim Burton and Sam Hamm for 1989's Batman.

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