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Chris McGrath
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Also the Adams Power Records Joker for me.
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Chris McGrath
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You know, come to think of it, it could very well have been Irv Novick's Joker.
It's a toss-up.
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Thomas Moudry
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My first Joker artist was Jim Aparo in The Brave and the Bold #111--one of
the greatest "What the heck?!?" covers ever!
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Chris McGrath
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JB's follow-up question turned out to be harder than it seemed at first. The more I think about it, the more I find I am arguing with myself. Memory can be such a murky thing.
Aparo's Brave and the Bold Joker certainly ranks among the earliest in my memory, but so does the classic Carmine Infantino image that it seemed was on every licensed DC product of the day when I was growing up, from Posters and T-shirts, to Mego dolls, to Slurpee cups, and those trading cards that came with Wonder Bread:
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Robert LaGuardia
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Favorite would be Bolland, with an honorable mention to Dave Mckean.
First, though, is harder to pinpoint. Maybe Aparo, but I'm sure I've seen
drawings of The Joker before that on merchandise. Was there an artist
who was typically used for merchandise in the late 70s/ early 80s?
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Eric Kleefeld
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The first Joker artist that I saw was probably Jim Aparo, in a trade of "A Death In The Family." Brian Bolland also made an enormous impression on me.
With Bruce Timm's Joker, what really struck me about "Batman: The Animated Series" was Mark Hamill's voice for the character — it was the one I had already been hearing in my head when I read the comics. (This was also true for me with quite a few other characters as depicted in that show!) Mark Hamill's voice for the Joker is, quite simply, what the Joker sounds like.
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Wallace Sellars
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My favorite Joker artist is José Luis Garçia-Lopez.
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Peter Martin
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Favourite: Brian BollandFirst: Irv Novick
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Paul Greer
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Favorite: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. First: I believe it was Neal Adams. I recall my first Batman comic being a digest that reprinted stories from various eras. I am postive it reprinted the Five-Way Revenge story.
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Stephen Robinson
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I still remember saving up to buy THE GREATEST JOKER STORIES hardback in early 1988. Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, and Marshall Rogers Jokers all in one book! It was too much for a still-13-yr old kid to imagine. The book brought me hours of joy. And best of all, they were ALL still The Joker -- just different visual interpretations.
Mr. Rogers's Joker is the one that replayed itself in my head over and over. "The Laughing Fish" was one of my favorite stories.
I was certainly captivated by Brian Bolland's depiction of The Joker in THE KILLING JOKE but whenever I re-read it, I appreciate the art but it seems less and less like The Joker. It's... some guy.
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John Byrne
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Sadly, I find it hard to like Marshall's Joker. It's tainted by how much I DIDN'T like Englehart's take on the the character. He was one of the first, if not THE first, to play the Joker as actually CRAZY, instead of choosing, to borrow a line from Hamlet, to "put an antic disposition on".Not "my" Joker.
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James Johnson
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My Favorite: Jim Aparo
My First: It was either Aparo or Irv Novick ( I can't remember that far back).
Edited by James Johnson on 26 March 2013 at 7:35pm
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