Changes

====1970's remake====

====1970's remake====

In 1973 DC did an extensive revamping of the Batman series and characters, returning to their earlier roots of dark and compelling stories.  Brought out of the trash can, the Joker committed his homicides once again according to the writer-artist team of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams in the pages of ''Batman'' #251 (Sept. 1973), in an instant classic titled "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge."  Escaping from the "state hospital for the criminally insane" - the first instance of what wold be called Arkham Asylam - the Joker hunts down his former henchmen in an effort to get revenge on the man who put him there for twenty years, with the added pleasure of taunting both the police and Batman to stop him in a dark format that O'Neal and Adams have deliberately made to be as close as possible to ''film noir''.

In 1973 DC did an extensive revamping of the Batman series and characters, returning to their earlier roots of dark and compelling stories.  Brought out of the trash can, the Joker committed his homicides once again according to the writer-artist team of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams in the pages of ''Batman'' #251 (Sept. 1973), in an instant classic titled "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge."  Escaping from the "state hospital for the criminally insane" - the first instance of what would be called Arkham Asylam - the Joker hunts down his former henchmen in an effort to get revenge on the man who put him there for twenty years, with the added pleasure of taunting both the police and Batman to stop him in a dark format that O'Neal and Adams have deliberately made to be as close as possible to ''film noir''.

In the story "The Laughing Fish," (''Detective Comics #475, March 1978), writer Steve Englehart and and artist Marshall Rogers defined the Joker's psychosis further, in which the Joker had applied for a patent for a chemical which causes a wicked grin in fish, of which he woud be able to collect royalties for his "invention," with the added joke that he would kill anyone who pointed out just how crazy his invention was.  Although a two-part story with no more than three murders, "The Laughing Fish" left an impression on readers: the Joker's madness had risen to new levels, and the stories were getting more compelling.

In the story "The Laughing Fish," (''Detective Comics #475, March 1978''), writer Steve Englehart and and artist Marshall Rogers defined the Joker's psychosis further, in which the Joker had applied for a patent for a chemical which causes a wicked grin in fish, of which he would be able to collect royalties for his "invention," with the added joke that he would kill anyone who pointed out just how crazy his invention was.  Although a two-part story with no more than three murders, "The Laughing Fish" left an impression on readers: the Joker's madness had risen to new levels, and the stories were getting more compelling.

====1980's====

====1980's====