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What it's all about...
In this hugely influential one-shot, the origin of The Joker is demystified, the lives of numerous beloved Gothamites are irrevocably altered and the black-and-white relationship between the Dark Knight Detective and the Clown Prince Of Crime is permanently muddied. Alan Moore's tale finds Batman’s grinning nemesis going a step too far as he attempts to prove that "One bad day" is all it takes to make a sane person go insane. Amid the random violence and twisted logic is a back story that shows the psychopathic funster in a disturbingly human light.

Why you should read it...
The Killing Joke marked a serious sea-change in the Batman canon. Its events affected the entire DC universe and, with the unveiling of a murderous incarnation of The Joker, set the tone for a new and dangerous epoch in comic books.