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| "The Joker Gets a Royal Flush" from The Joker #5 (DC, 1976) by Martin Pasko, Irv Novick and Ted Blaisdell |
In the mid-70s, DC started publishing a bunch of crazy high-concept books, only to cancel them before they reached the 12-issue mark. Of these, two villains got their own books. There was Kobra (still to come) and there was the Joker. More a merry prankster in this series than a psychopath, the Clown Prince of Crime got to go up against many thematically-linked opponents, from the Creeper (who stole his laughing shtick) to the Royal Flush Gang (get it?). It was nothing like The Killing Joke and it lasted only 9 issues.
I liked the Joker's old comic. It was as you suggest a lot of fun. Good Irv Novick artwork for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by the presence of Alfred Bester's name on this one. What did he do?
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I guess it means he helped Pasko with the ideas, brainstormed or consulted on them. By the mid-70s, while Bester was being considered to write the Superman movie, he hadn't, as far as I know, done any comics work since the Golden Age.
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