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Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Vigilante justice meets criminal justice on the steps of the Gotham Central Police Department just after Batman's first encounter with the Joker! When Batman turns the Joker over to police custody, his work is far from done. As the Joker continues his senseless killing spree while imprisoned, Batman quickly realizes that this psychotic freak is not ordinary laughing larcenist..."--P. [4] of cover.
5) Joker
Author
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none too happy about what's happened to his Gotham City rackets while he's been away. What follows is a harrowing night of revenge, murder and manic crime as only the Joker can deliver it, as he brutally takes back is stolen assets from the Penguin, the Riddler, Two-Face, Killer Croc and more."-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Valentine's Day, the Joker finds himself in need of Batman's rescue when he is unexpectedly pursued by Gotham's love-sick women--then during the Lunar New Year's celebration Robin takes on the case of a stolen artifact.
Author
Series
Collected Gotham central volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Collects no. 11-22 of "Gotham Central," in which the Joker turns himself in after randomly killing innocent people, making the police department wonder what his motive really is; problems arise concerning the girl who turns on the Bat-signal; the Huntress gets involved in a series of murders; and Harvey Bullock tries to finish some old business.
8) ArkhaManiacs
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"There's an apartment building in Gotham City full of life: kids with special powers, pirates in the swimming pool, even a croc (or two!). Young Bruce Wayne is drawn to fun and excitement he sees going on at the Arkham Apartments, but to Wayne Enterprises, it's just another property they own. Bruce is determined to find out why this apartment building is full of so much fun and laughter. What exactly is going on over there? Time to sneak over when...
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Outspoken, rebellious, and eccentric fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel has five dollars to her name when shes sent to live in Gotham City. Harleen has battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, but her fortune turns when Gothams finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in. And at first it seems like Harleen has finally found a place to grow into her most true true, with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High. But then Harleys fortune takes another turn when...
Series
Batman white knight volume 2
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Joker goes sane! Set in a world where the Clown Prince of Crime has been cured of his madness, Batman: White Knight follows the man now known as Jack Napier as he embarks on a quest to heal the city he once terrorized. After reconciling with his long-suffering partner, Harley Quinn, he sets in motion a carefully plotted campaign to discredit the one person whom he views as Gotham City's true enemy: Batman. His crusade exposes a decades-long history...
11) Batman: Europa
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
"After an unknown enemy infects Batman with a deadly virus, the Dark Knight must race across Europe in search of a cure. But he wasn't the only target. His greatest enemy, the Joker, was exposed to the same destructive disease. Batman and Joker were each given different pieces of the larger puzzle, and neither can solve the mystery without the other." -- back cover.
Series
Batman the Dark Knight detective volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Gotham City has endured much through its dark, twisted history and even the cosmic changes wrought by the Crisis on Infinite Earths couldn t give the town a fresh start the grime is it DNA. The Crisis did, though, allow for the reintroduction of familiar foes, albeit with a fresh take on the Dark Knight Detective featuring a back-to-basics approach to crime-fighting. The Joker comes back to Gotham City with a plot to kidnap Selina Kyle Bruce...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"One bad day. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark...
Author
Series
Batman Beyond (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Joker never dies! Gotham City, the future. Teenager Terry McGinnis has taken over the mantle of Batman, mentored by Bruce Wayne himself, but the criminals menacing Gotham have only gotten deadlier. Now, a new threat is rising. The Jokerz, a gang of petty criminals inspired by Batman's greatest foe, are now flooding into Gotham. Organized and more deadly than ever before, they are united by a single murderous cause under a charismatic leader with...
15) Gotham High
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex and Eliza and Blue Bloods, comes a reimagining of Gotham for a new generation of readers. After being kicked out of his boarding school, 17-year-old Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City to find that nothing is as he left it. What once was his family home is now an empty husk, lonely but haunted by the memory of his parents' murder. Selina Kyle, once the innocent girl next door,...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the mouth of madness. Arkham Asylum is home to many of the Batmans worst enemiesincluding the most dangerous one of them all: the Joker. No psychologist of psychotherapist has ever been able to break through the insanity that imprisons the Jokers mind. In fact, many have been broken themselves in the attempt. Bu Dr. Ben Arnell knows that he is different. He is sure that he will be the one to finally reach the man inside the madnessand cure him....
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's been three years since the events of Dark Knight III: The Master Race. Lara has spent the time learning to be more human, and Carrie Kelley has been growing into her new role as Batwoman. But a terrifying evil has returned to Gotham City, and Lara and Carrie must team up to stop this growing threat--and they have a secret weapon. Young Jonathan Kent, the golden child, has a power inside of him unlike anything the world has ever seen, and it's...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At long last, it's Harley Quinn and The Joker, face-to-face! Harley's got an endangered friend to save, but there's just one problem: she's got to get through Arkham Asylum first! Unsurprisingly, Harley's not eager to set foot in the site of some of her darkest hours...and she definitely isn't ready to face a certain someone who's laughing at the end of a dark hallway. The life of Harley's new love, Mason Macabre, is in the Joker's hands...but can...
19) Harleen
Author
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most: one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic origin of Harley Quinn told through the eyes of the only person who knows her better than anyone: Harleen. It's been months since Harleen began interviewing criminals at Arkham Asylum, and she's having...
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