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Stacked Deck: Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Deluxe Leatherbound Series)

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Stacked Deck is what every comics fan should have. It's purple leatherbound with gold painted page-edges when closed and a red-ribbon bookmark (okay so the color combo sound's weird, just look at the picture and you'll get a better idea.

The packaging is perfect, considering this is not just any comic book or graphic novel. 351 pages. Almost half a century spanning of stories, as well as a biography index in the back and a couple of articles from some of the greatest artists and writers to ever touch a pen to one of Batman's most interesting and terrifying villians.

This expanded edition of "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever told" is a treasure trove of both varying artwork and storytelling. Batman, created by Bob Kane, needed to start off with a bang, and that needed to be a villian that was as strong, smart, and evil as batman was a fighter for justice and peace through revenge and retribution to the crime ridden street's of Gotham City.

The stories that surround the Joker are nothing short of spectacular, with his James Bond (before James Bond) gadget's of death and that sinister smile, The Joker's legend grew into one of the greatest fictional characters of all time, along with his archnemesis, The Batman. Also making multiple appearances in the stories is Robin, boy wonder, Batman's longtime sidekick!

25 Stories from 1940 - 1987 coming from Detective Comic's archives as well as the original title of "Batman" You won't want to miss this!

With additional commentary from DC greats Denny O'Neil and other DC Editors/writers, etc, this book takes several Joker stories from Batman No. #1 1940 to the Last Laugh presented in Detective Comics No. #570 in 1987.

The commentary, end notes and brief bio sketches on the many writers and artists on these Batman/Joker stories is also a nice touch. Are these teh greatest Joker stories, well, maybe not, but many are and most of them are good. This book was published in part because of the success of Batman in 1989, of which the Joker was well received by theviewing publc.

This review is for the Longmeadow Press expanded edition bound in leather (which was released after the DC/Warner The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told.)

This is a delightful piece of work and the delights here consist of both content and packaging.

I'm the happy owner of many of the large DC books from the 80's and 90's (including several "The Greatest X Stories Ever Told") and, as much as I like these volumes, they just don't hold up. The paper is so-so, the color is decent, but the books are prone to wear. They're oddly fragile. Here we have a wonderful brick of a book, 2.5 pounds, 351 pp. With a sewn binding. And bound in leather. Real leather.

The design of this thing is twisted. It harkens back to a pretentious 19th century style of book -- raised bands on the spine, padded boards, decorated endpapers, and, yes, those two most pretentious elements: gold page edges and a cloth bookmark. But the book is purple. Not violet, but a loud PURPLE with some simple and graphic cover art in black, red, and white by Dean Motter. And that's a lot to love. The happy tension between a "fine" leather volume and the garish decorative elements totally suit the Joker.

Inside you get an excellent survey of Joker stories from 1940 through to a 1987 Mike Barr story. Creator bios. Text pieces by Waid, O'Neill, Mike Gold, and Giordano.

5 stars just for the look. This just looks really cool on your bookshelf.

Joker fans must have, great reads.

This item was packaged well and in great shape upon arrival. Arrival time, however, was pathetic. It took forever to ship and arrived well after Christmas. Overall, the product is great. Service, however, was horrible.

This is a great edition to any Batman library. It's a collection of Joker stories from 1939-1987. Really good stuff here including the first appearance of the Joker and his origin story. Intrestingly enough it also includes two stories as Jason Todd as Robin. This is before The Killing Joke and a Death in the Family so the stories are more light hearted as Joker hasn't inflicted the personal pain on Batman yet. A must have for Joker fans.

this was really cool, I loved the book and what was even better is that they let me save on shipping by coming to pick it up at their store.