The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus

With a film starring the Joker as played by Joaquin Phoenix in the works for fall 2019, DC collects the greatest 1970s tales of the clown prince of crime in one massive hardcover for the first time

He has been the thorn in the side of the Caped Crusader for years, always there to confound Batman and his allies before their own genius and heroics halt whatever crazy scheme has hatched from his maniacal mind. As the swinging '60s moved into the troubled '70s, so, too, did the Joker shift into something new. The Bronze Age Joker was a step away from Cesar Romero's comical portrayal in the Batman TV series toward the diabolical maniac that would eventually plaque the Batman of the modern era. The Clown Prince of Crime had come into his own, both in his own comic book series and in his psyche, or lack thereof...

Including all of the Joker's major Bronze Age appearances, including the never-before-publishedThe Joker #10, The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus chronicles the Clown Prince of Crime's adventures throughout the DC Universe. This volume collects Batman #251, #260, #286, #291-294, #321, #353, #365-366, #400, The Brave and The Bold #111, #118, #129-130, #141, #191, DC Comics Presents #41, #72, Detective Comics #475-476, #526, #532, Justice League of America #77, The Joker #1-10, and Wonder Woman #280-283

Born in Indianapolis, Steve Englehard went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied Psychology because people fascinated him, but in getting his B.A. he learned that psychology didn’t describe real people, so he became a writer.

He began his writing career on Marvel’s Captain America in the early 1970s, and soon added The Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange, and half a dozen other series. He moved by DC Comics by the late 1970s to write a series of Batman tales and more.

After Batman he traveled around Europe for a year and wrote his first novel, The Point Man. Since then he’s designed video games for Atari, Activision, Electronic Arts, and others. He’s written animation for Street Fighter and G.I. Joe. He’s written mid-grade books for Avon, including the DNAgers series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school programs on the invention of the aeroplane. And he’s written more comics, like Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer, which led to the San Diego Comic-Con calling him ＂comics’ most successful writer, having had more hits with more characters at more companies than anyone else in comics history.＂ He created The Night Man, which became a live-action television series. Most recently, The Point Man has engendered a series of novels from Tor, beginning with The Long Man.