In honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Joker, we're doing a countdown of your favorite Joker stories of all-time.

You all voted, now here are the results of what you chose as the 75 Greatest Joker Stories! Click here for a master list of all 75 stories.

Enjoy!

5. "Hunt the Dark Knight" (Batman: The Dark Knight Book 3)

Frank Miller and Klaus Janson deliver a new take on the Joker, as Miller plays around with the idea of whether the Joker and his ilk are RESPONSES to the Batman's existence, as during the time that batman was out of the limelight, the Joker went away, as well. Now that the Dark Knight has returned, however, the Joker is back, too, in a striking sequence where he kills the entire David Letterman audience. He and Batman engage in their final battle, all the while public sentiment is being turned against Batman. What he doesn't realize (but what the Joker DOES) is that the result of this fight will determine how the public will view Batman. Batman still believes that he can take the Joker down without killing him...

In the end, the Joker makes one of the most twisted decisions he's ever made, as a final middle finger to his longtime foe. Miller and Janson's artwork is excellent.

4. "Mad Love" (1993's The Batman Adventures: Mad Love #1)

In this classic one-shot, Paul Dini and Bruce Timm spotlighted their creation, Harley Quinn, with a spotlight and a look at her origin and how she exists in relation to the Joker.

In the story, Harley decides that the only way to make Joker really pay attention to her is to kill Batman for him. She seems poised to pull it off, too, when Batman plays upon her fragile psyche (and what he knows of the Joker's ego)...

This is an extremely well told story with stunning artwork from the great Timm.

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3. "Joker's Five-Way Revenge" (1973's Batman #251)

Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano bring the Joker into a new era with his story, which firmly re-established the Joker as a deadly villain.

Adams is just astonishing in this issue, right from the first page...

but he has other epic pages, like when the Joker gets the drop on Batman...

or this legendary shot of Batman in fast pursuit of the Joker...

Perhaps not since his very introduction had a single story been more important to the success of the Joker as a comic book character.

2. "The Laughing Fish" (1976-77's Detective Comics #475-76)

Steve Englehart's acclaimed run on Detective Comics comes to an end with this two-parter. The whole point of Englehart's run was for him to him to sort of tell the ultimate Batman story, by having him visit most of Batman's most memorable villains and do a story featuring them. He could not end, of course, without spotlighting the Clown Prince of Crime. It is so weird when you consider the timeline we're looking at here. Four years -earlier, the Joker was not even really PART Of the Bat-titles, and now three years after O'Neil and Adams brought the Joker back, he has already had his own ongoing series come and go! However, Englehart and the artistic team for most of his run, Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin, helped to even further revitalize the Joker with a tale that mixed in two of the Joker's greatest character traits, his chaotic nature along with his drive to kill (something that was a key point right from his first appearance), all wrapped up in a truly original story idea - the Joker has used his venom on the fish off the coast of Gotham City. He now wants a trademark on all of these "laughing fish" and if he is not given one, well, he'll just have to kill every bureacrat that stands in his way until it happens.

Check out how Englehart, Rogers and Austin introduce the Joker. It's simply stunning work...

That darkly comedic last panel gag. Classic chaotic evil.

Since this was the last part of his run, Englehart also had to resolve the Silver St. Cloud plotline (Bruce Wayne's girlfriend who figured out that he is Batman) and her and Bruce's relationship get a large chunk of this final story.

1. "The Killing Joke" (1988's Batman: The Killing Joke)

The Killing Joke is a remarkable one-off story by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland that works as basically a Joker origin story ("basically" because it has never been officially determined that this version of the Joker's origin story is the TRUE origin of the Joker), showing events that turned a decent enough guy down on his luck into the madman known as the Joker.

The Joker looks at his own circumstances and develops a theory - he became the Joker because, in effect, he had one really bad day. Therefore, could he break a good man by giving THAT man just "one bad day," as well? The man that the Joker chooses to test his theory on is Commissioner Gordon, which leads to one of the most (in?)famous sequences in DC Comics history...

We then see how the Joker becomes the Joker in the past while we intercut with the modern day Joker torturing Gordon. Batman rescues Gordon but we see that the Joker did not win - he did not break Gordon...

However, can Batman bring himself to just bring the Joker in one more time after what the Joker did today? When the two men share a joke, is it really the final joke that they'll ever share?

Bolland took a long time to draw this series (well worth the wait) so this project would be difficult to be any more hyped than it was when it finally came out (Alan Moore doing a Batman graphic novel with Brian Bolland?!?!) and yet it still managed to exceed the hype.