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!

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55. "Hazard's Choice" (1996's Action Comics #719)

The Joker ran afoul of Superman in 1995's Action Comics #714, but after being defeated, the Joker sent a Joker action figure to Lois Lane as some sort of taunt. Five issues later, in a story by David Michelinie with art by Kieron Dwyer and Denis Rodier, it turns out that the action figure secretly had a poison. Lois Lane has just two hours to live! Superman races to find a cure and soon learns Joker's dastardly plan...

That is some messed up stuff right there. What should Superman do in this instance? Let Lois die or kill the Joker? Hint: Clark and Lois call off their engagement an issue later.

54. "Dark Victory" (2000's Batman: Dark Victory)

The Joker doesn't play a HUGE role in Dark Victory, the sequel to Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's The Long Halloween, but he does show up in roughly half the issues of the series. He works in the series as a sort of foil to Two-Face, and, of course, Tim Sale draws one awesome Joker...

There is a classic moment where the Joker tries to screw with Two-Face by capturing someone Harvey Dent is close to. It backfires on the Joker, though, in a very dramatic way.

53. "Joker's Holiday" (1996's Aztek: The Ultimate Man #6-7)

In this two-parter by writers Grant Morrison and Mark Millar and artists N. Steven Harris and Keith Champagne, the Joker shows up in Aztek's city, Vanity, where he begins a series of Joker Venom attacks in select areas of the city. Aztek discovers that the attacks are grouped into the form of the letter "A." Presuming it is intended as a lure to him, he goes to the center of the A where he meets the Joker...

Trippy stuff. An early look at Morrison's Joker (Morrison scripted the first part of the story). Great art by Harris and Champagne. In the second part, Batman shows up to lend a hand (with a script by Millar). The story is actually fascinating if only to see a two-part story where each part is scripted by a different guy - it is interesting to look for the style differences in the two issues.

Go to the next page for #52-49!

52. "The Great Pretender" (1993's Showcase '94 #1-2)

In this two part story by James Robinson, Christian Alamy and Rudy Nebres, the Joker wakes up in a whole new reality as a regular "Joe," Joe White, as it were. A window washer in a magical kingdom of Gotham City, where the Joker King rules all and the mighty Batman wages war with him. Joe has a wife and is a pretty meaningless figure. The Joker can't buy into that, though, so decide to alter his reality the best way he knows how...

Striking artwork and an interesting premise really made this story stand out. And no, the date is not a typo.

51. "Superman and Batman's Greatest Foes!" (1957's World's Finest Comics #88)

Joker and Luthor team up for the first time in this tale by Edmond Hmilton, Dick Sprang and Stan Kaye, where the villains seemingly go legit and start a robotic production company that makes them acclaimed businessmen and frustrates the heck out of the suspicious heroes...

Their big plan is not really all that much of a big plan, but I like the sight of the villains working together, as drawn by Dick Sprang.

50. "Images" (1993's Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #50)

Denny O'Neil and Bret Blevins took this anniversary issue of Legends of the Dark Knight to do an extra-long tale of how Batman and the Joker first met, as well as how the Joker first developed his laughing venom, courtesy of a dumbwitted cousin of the Joker...

The laughing cat was done for the striking cover for the issue by Brian Bolland. It's a creepy image.

49. "Ghosts" (Batman: Ghosts: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special)

People sometimes forget that before they began their epic The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale did three Halloween Specials between 1993 and 1995. The last one before The Long Halloween begun was a take-off on A Christmas Carol, with Batman being visited by a series of spirits who look like his famous villain. The Joker is just one of those spirits, but his appearance is quite memorable...

Great art by Sale. Loeb does a nice job having the Joker compare himself with Batman (neither has any friends, people are scared of them both, that sort of thing).

Go to the next page for #48-46!

48. "Madness in a Dark Dimension!" (1984's DC Comics Presents #72)

This is one of those rare stories where Joker is mostly a good guy, as Superman runs afoul of a creature from a dimension ruled by madness. Therefore, the Phantom Stranger realizes that the only one who can help Superman navigate this land is the Joker. After the Stranger uses some of his powers to compel the Joker to help them, they head off, leading to a great sequence where Joker embraces the power that the dimension gives him...

Fine work by writer Paul Kupperberg and artists Alex Saviuk and Dennis Jensen.

47. "Joker and Red Skull Team-Up" (1996's Batman and Captain America)

Few inter-company crossovers are quite as note perfect as John Byrne's take on Batman and Captain America teaming up in a time period designed to be like the two heroes teamed up back when their comics were first out.

Byrne does a marvelous job with the Joker in the series, accurately capturing how he was drawn and handled at the time in the Batman comics of the era and, of course, giving him a rare sort of heroic moment when even the Joker is disgusted with the idea of teaming up with a Nazi...

The laughing venom/Red Skull mist canceling each other was genius.

46. "Hit or Miss!" (1988's Justice League International Annual #2)

The theme of the 1988 DC Comics Annuals was "Private Lives," and in this story, the Justice League are coming together to have a barbecue at Mister Miracle and Big Barda's suburban home in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold have taken on a repossession case (a missing tank). All the while, the Joker is hunting down the Justice League as part of a contract to kill the League that he has taken from the President of Bialya. Writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis milk a lot of laughs out of how the Bialyian operatives are so confused by the Joker's crazed behavior (which mostly involves watching syndicated TV shows and eating junk food)...

The artwork for the story was by Bill Willingham and Joe Rubinstein. Like many great JLI-era stories by Giffen and DeMatteis, the whole thing slowly builds and builds and builds until everything collides into an over-the-top crescendo of comedy at the end (the Joker ends up begging for Batman to take him back to Gotham City).

Check back tomorrow for the next five stories on the countdown!