*DC: Daringly, in 1975, DC awarded the Joker his own title, (in defiance of the Comics Code, which said that villains couldn’t be shown to triumph) and even now, decades later, it remains the Clown Prince Of Crime’s only on-going series. Not that it ‘on-went’ for long, stopping at #9. But what was a Bronze Age curio has now become a much sought-after short series with one of the hottest characters in comics. We have the first issue newly in stock: #1, pitting ‘Mr. J.’ against fellow villain Two-Face. It’s a slightly above mid-grade copy, pence stamped, nice colour and reasonable gloss, tight, firm staples and decent off-white to cream pages. There is very minor edge wear, notably a tiny nick out of right edge near the top and a faint colour-breaking crease up from the bottom edge across the Penguin, but very presentable.
PICTURED: JOKER #1 VG/FN p £50 SOLD