Batman The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition

EUC - wear on book jacket. Twenty years ago, writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland gave the world a glimpse of the events that made The Joker who he is. Now their brilliantly nightmarish vision returns in a new, •definitive edition. He's the Batman's most implacable foe, a mad criminal genius whose bizarre rampages baffle even the world's greatest detective. But The Joker was not always this way. Before he became the Clown Prince of Crime, before a single, fateful day scared his face and warped his mind forever, he was just the sort of person the Dark Knight has dedicated his life to protecting - a common man. What happened to transform this average citizen into the greatest evil Gotham City has ever. known? Can Batman stop The Joker from dragging Commissioner Gordon and his daughter Barbara into his world of murderous madness? And can these two enemies put a stop to their etemal duel before it's too late for both of them? Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Bolland, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy.