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The Joker was portrayed as a thief who left an unusual calling card: the bodies of his victims with their faces contorted in a grotesque smile, but his actual origins were not established until much later. In 1951, ''Detective Comics'' number 168 presented "The Man Behind the Red Hood", which placed Batman against a criminal who struck once more after a ten-year hiatus. The revealing of the Red Hood to be the Joker also revealed his origins: once a lab worker, he was going to retire off of a million dollars stolen from a nearby playing card company, but his escape with the loot through chemical wastes had altered his appearence, bleaching his skin white and turning his hair green.
The Joker was portrayed as a thief who left an unusual calling card: the bodies of his victims with their faces contorted in a grotesque smile, but his actual origins were not established until much later. In 1951, ''Detective Comics'' number 168 presented "The Man Behind the Red Hood", which placed Batman against a criminal who struck once more after a ten-year hiatus. The revealing of the Red Hood to be the Joker also revealed his origins: once a lab worker, he was going to retire off of a million dollars stolen from a nearby playing card company, but his escape with the loot through chemical wastes had altered his appearence, bleaching his skin white and turning his hair green.
==Films==
The Joker made his first film appearence in the 1966-69 television series ''Batman''. Played by veteran actor Caesar Romero, this version of the Joker was merely a clownish prankster in keeping with the Comics Code imposed at the time. One of the big-name stars who was attracted to film guest appearences in the series (Burgess Meredith, Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, Vincent Price among others), Romero had an unusual trait which he insisted not be touched: a well-groomed mustache, which was hidden under his white make up.
====''Batman'' (1989)====
Director Tim Burton's blockbuster had cast Jack Nicholson in the lead role as an intelligent yet mentally-unstable mob enforcer named Jack Napier, who becomes the Joker at the hands of Batman. Nicholson's wild performance stole the show, and helped ''Batman'' take in over $400 million worldwide in box office receipts.