{"id":1942,"date":"2025-06-07T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:16:41","slug":"batman-the-killing-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/batman-the-killing-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: The Killing Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Title<\/td><td>Batman: The Killing Joke<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Issue<\/td><td>Graphic Novel<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Publisher<\/td><td>DC Comics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Flagship Artist<\/td><td>Brian Bolland<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Story Rating<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cover Rating<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Genre<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/tag\/superhero\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"471\">Superhero<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/43808\/\">The Grand Comics Database<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Batman visits the Joker in Arkham Asylum only to discover he has been replaced by a double. As Batman attempts to track the villain down, the Joker shows up at the house of Commissioner Gordon where he promptly shoots Barbara and captures her father. The Joker takes Jim to a modified carnival where he tries to drive him mad. Batman arrives and starts beating on the Joker who attempts to reason with him in his own insane fashion. As things wrap up and the police arrive, the Joker finally tells Batman a joke that he gets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thekillingjoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thekillingjoke.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/thekillingjoke-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Batman: The Killing Joke Issue Graphic Novel Publisher DC Comics Flagship Artist Brian Bolland Story Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Cover Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Genre Superhero Links The Grand Comics Database Batman visits the Joker in Arkham Asylum only to discover he has been replaced by a double. As Batman attempts to track the villain down, the Joker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[471],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics","tag-superhero"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}