*DC: In 1975, DC decided to take the daring step, for the time, of publishing a series in which a villain was the ‘hero’ – and what better choice than the Clown Prince of Crime, the Joker? Bat-Veteran creators Denny O’Neil and Irv Novick launched the series, and it was loaded with guest-stars – the Creeper, Lex Luthor, Green Arrow & Black Canary, the Royal Flush Gang, the Scarecrow and more. However, the pesky Comics Code Authority, still in force at that time, decreed that evil-doers should never be shown as triumphant, so the audience was in the position of watching the Joker lose out issue after issue, and while that was fine for a guest-villain, it didn’t fly for the ostensible star of the series! It ended with issue #9, but has since then, with the Joker’s ever-escalating popularity, become a highly sought-after series, and we have the first eight of the nine back in stock in nice grades, averaging Fine – but if you want to beat out the other larcenous miscreants in search of the series, better move with alacrity!