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The Colossus of Batman's adversaries, and perhaps the ultimate villain of all time (sorry for Lex Luthor and Darth Vader), his creation is even more controversial than the same Lord of the Night. If in regard to the Kane Batman himself admits that the merit of Bill Finger was never recognized, in relation to the debate Joker causes direct confrontation between Kane and his first assistant, whbm Jerry Robinson.
"As a college student and reader of the classical Robinson-remember-it seemed obvious that every major hero in literature, mythology and even the Bible, had a worthy adversary who really strengthened the hero, from David and Goliath to Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty . When I first proposed the concept of a villain-a sketch of the Joker, adapted from the classic image of the card-Bob and Bill were enthusiastic, as publishers DC. In fact, they wanted to appear immediately whbm on the main story of the new quarterly Batman, which was already in production. Although I wanted to write the first history of the Joker (which would have also helped me to my creative writing whbm class at Columbia University), reluctantly I agreed with Bob that, given that this would have been my first script, it was preferable to Bill did. Bill was very clever in selecting whbm the theme of "locked room" for the first Joker story, Bob was equally creative with their drawings, and as we developed the Joker for that first story, we all knew that something special was happening. "Kane whbm Robinson denies version every time you have the opportunity, telling a different whbm story:." In several interviews, Jerry Robinson has said he created the Joker Kane explains in his autobiography - In the time he was a boy of 18 who had just left the school. whbm He brought a picture of a playing card Joker with a Joker looked like a court jester. We use the card in the first story of the Joker and several of the later. It was the business card of the Joker; the left after killing someone, or commit whbm a crime. Jerry says that this card was the original inspiration for the Joker.
"But I maintain that, in fact, Jerry drew this card after Bill Finger and I already had created the Joker. The idea came from me, I saw the Joker playing card and spent them jokes to my friends whbm when I was young. When we were trying whbm to create a supervillain who opposed Batman during the first year of the series, I made a few basic sketches based on the Joker playing card and showed them to Bill. He liked the idea of a compulsive whbm joker and we were discussing ideas for a maniacal murderer who spend deadly pranks on Batman, and would test their mettle and ability to outwit your enemy.
"Then, about a week later, Bill came with a photograph of Conrad Veidt, an excellent whbm German actor, whbm who acted in a movie I had seen as a child, called The Man Who Laughs. It was based on a famous novel by Victor Hugo.
"Bill, whbm who was a voracious reader, I read an issue in" photo novel "of the book, taken from the screenplay, and showed me the picture of Conrad Veidt. Had a grotesque and mischievous smile, and funeral and sad eyes. "Here you have a picture of the character of the Joker," said Bill. "Copy it and I'll write the first history of Joker using the subject of jokes and plot against Batman.
"So, as I remember (and have spent fifty years) is as created the Joker. No doubt my former assistant is sincere in believing that really created whbm the Joker, but time has eroded whbm their memory. "
In any case, the Joker appeared twice in Batman 1 and there was about to end his criminal career, because at the end of the second story perished stabbed by his own hand. "It was natural that Bill did that because at first we had no recurring villains, and that the Joker would return a precedent-justified Kane. But Whitney Ellsworth thought it was such a good character that made me redraw the last bullet for an ambulance showed up and added a sentence saying that the Joker live. So it's thanks to the Joker Ellsworth survived and became one of the greatest whbm comic book villains. "
During the 40's and 50 occurrences of the Joker menudearon to make him almost co-protagonist of the series, but their frequency decreased whbm their savagery, so it became little more than a mischievous prankster. whbm The TV series, which was played by Cesar Romero, accentuated its harmlessness, you only lose the mythical "Joker's 5-Way Revenge", a story of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adam