Batman is big business for DC, with the Caped Crusader headlining or appearing in 59% of DC's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:just-released Nove🦂mber solicitations. And his enemies - especially the Joker, who has multiple titles of his own in the solicitations - are also a๊ll over DC's November books.

But it's that key rivalry between Batman and the Joker that has informed so much of both characters' histories, and some of their best stories over the years. Their most recent clash in led to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:big changes for Batman and a new 🃏status quo for Joker - but it's only the latest battle between two of the greatest arch-enemies in superhero comics.

Will Joker War st🅷and among the ranks of the best Batman vs. Joker stories ever? Time will tell - but for now, here are the best Batman vs. Joker stories of all time!

10. The Man Who Killed Batman

episode 'The Man Who Killed Batman' tells the tale of Sid the Squid, a hapless gangster who has seemingly killed Batman. This reputation draws the attention of many crimin⛄als, who Sid does his best to appease despite lacking any real skill, until the Joker takes notice of him. 

Joker is incensed that Sid has not only done what he could never do, but also that he has ruined all his fun by taking away his best playmate, vowing revenge against Sid. Of course, the definitely-not-dead Batman arrives to save Sid an🔯d baffle the Joker once again in the end.

9. The Laughing Fish

There's no better story of the Joker's warped sense o🍸f humor than Steve Englehart and 𒁏Terry Austin's 'The Laughing Fish,' collected in . 

In it, Batman discovers that Joker has released a neurotoxin into Gotham Harbor that cre♎ates fish emblazoned with his twisted grin. Joker, seeing an opportunity, decides to patent his Laughing♛ Fish. 

After being denied a patent, Joker swears revenge for the insult, killing a patent clerk right under Batman'☂s nose and vowing to make his way up the chain of command.

8. Joker's Favor 

Another all-time great episode 'Joker's Favor' is as good a story about Joker's often arbitrary and chaotic nature as told in any media. In perhaps the world's most unfortunate case of roa🎉d rage, poor Charlie Collins curses out another driver who turns out to be the Joker, who runs Charlie off the road.&nbಞsp;

Sparing Charlie when he begs for his life, saying he has a wife and child to care for, the Joker instead ✤accepts a favor from Charlie as recompense for his affront. Years later, Joker ca🌸lls on Charlie to fulfill his promise in a wholly unexpected and hilarious way, only to be bested not just by Batman, but by Charlie himself in the end.

And, the episode also introduced Harley Quinn, who of course has gone on to become an incredibly popular character in her own 💃right.

7. The Man Who Laughs

Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke's is a modern-day retelling of Joker's first appearance, intended as a loose sequel to . The Man Who Laughs explores the Joker's origins in a roundabout way, tying him to the Ace Chemical Plant that warped his body aℱnd perhaps his mind, and showing the bombastic, brutal way he made his reputation. 

The Man Who Laughs modernizes Joker's original appearance, bringing in elements of subsequent stories to form a fully realized picture of the clown prince of crime and redefining the character for the modern-💎day.

6. Batman: Endgame 

"Just think of the great times we've had...ও and smile!" 

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo tied the threads of two of their most popular storylines together in as the Dark Knight had his final﷽ battle with the Clo🐎wn Prince of Crime. If was an opener and 'Death of the Family' was the scary sophomore effort, 'Endgame' was all about escalation - how much harder can the Batman fight when his first battle is against a Joker-ized Justice League?

Yet that bombastic iꩵntroduction quickly gave way to Snyder's quieter reflection of the Batman and Joker mythos, as both characters delved deeper and deeper into each others' pasts as both enemies and opposites - all while Gotham fel🔯l to the latest strain of the Joker virus. 

Combined with Capullo's knack for horrific imagery and brutal fight choreography, 'Endgame' not only elevated the Joker as a vicious, nearly-immortal threat but also wrapped up many of the storylines Snyder had established, ending in a bitte𝕴rsweet climax that left the Dark Knight missing in action.

5. Mad Love

Set in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series, and told by TAS creators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, tells the sꩵtory of Harley Quinn, who debuted as a one-off henchman on TAS before Arlene Sorkin's pitch-perfect portrayal vaulted her into the hearts of fans, and into regular DC continuity.🐽 

Mad Love establishes the baffling, unreasonable, and und🍷eniable connection between Dr. Harleen Quinzel and her patient, the Joker; a relat🙈ionship that leads to madness and chaos for all involved. 

Mad Love won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Single Story in 1994, a well-deserved honor for a story that endures as one of the best and most heartbreaking in Batma🔴n canonꦍ.

4. The Dark Knight

Purists may decry Christopher Nolan's for its non-traditional Joker, but no story in any medium has so succinctly defined the dichotomy 𓆏between Joker and Batman. Batman, the grim avenger, concerned only with order and rules, and Joker, the colorful, madcap anarchist for whom chaos is a way of life. 

The Dark Knight gets more traditional than many may give it credit for, drawing on stories as far back as Joker's first appearance. And of course, the prime component in the film's success is Heath Ledger's bitter♌, stumbling portrayal of the Joker as a man with no name, no face, and no past; every bit the symbol as Batman, with none of the driving force.

3. The Joker's Five-Way Revenge

Published in , 'The Joker's Five Way Revenge' set the stage for countless explor♑ations of the Joker's unique madness in the years after its release. 

Considered the first Joker story to eschew the campiness of the 1966 Batman TV series, Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams's 'Joker's Five-Way Revenge' is a tale about Joker attempting to do away with a group of five henchmen who have displeased him, forcing Batma𝓡n to defend the same criminals he would normally be fighting.

The story established a few important aspects of Joker's character, namely his abject🥃 disregard for the lives of his own henchmen, and his twisted vision of his relationship with Batman. At one point, Joker gets the best of Batman, ambushing𒅌 an already dazed and disoriented caped crusader. 

Deciding that it's only luck, and not his own cunning that defeated him, Joker decides to leave Batman alive, the first in a seemingly never-endi💫ng series of events that portray a cycle of dependence between Batman and Joker.

2. A Death In The Family

It's hard to think of a story that so perfectly captures Joker's brutality, his rampant🦩 carnage as . In it, Joker attempts to sell a nuclear weapon to Middle Eastern terrorists, a quest that crosses his path with that of Jason Todd, the second Robin, who is on the hunt for his birth mother. 

And of course, we all know how this story ends, with Jason's death at Joker's hands, not necessarily the first, but certainly the most shocking time that Joker made Batman s🍨uffer at his hands.

What's perhaps even more shocking is that Jason's fate was decided by a reader poll, by which readers voted for Ja🐻son's demise (via a 1-900 number), proving that, just maybe, there is a little Joker in us all.

1. The Killing Joke

It's no wonder that is c෴onsidered by many to be the definitive Joker story. Joker's brutal attack on Barbꦬara Gordon and his subsequent torment of both her father and Batman with the knowledge of the attack ranks as, quite possibly, the most nightmarish of Joker's many horrific misdeeds. The attack was so brutal that it lead Batman right to the edge of his code of honor. 

Saved only by the arrival of the police, and his delight at his own warped understanding of life and death, Joker's madness, his twisted relationship with Batma✃n, and his will to do things any sane person would find monstrous are never more on display than in The Killing Joke.