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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75. "The Joker's Testimony" (1977's Batman #294)

This issue is the conclusion to the acclaimed Batman classic "Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed?," one of the earliest (if not THE earliest) four-part Batman storyline. Beginning in Batman #291, David Vern Reed, John Calnan and Tex Blaisdell told the story of Batman's various rogues trying to take credit for the murder of Batman. Two-Face is chosen to prove who actually did the crime. In the first three issues, Two-Face debunks Catwoman, Riddler and Lex Luthor. In the conclusion we learn that it was JOKER who actually killed Batman! We learn that he had spied on Batman in action and had studied his moves so much that he then knew how to handle Batman when they finally tangled again, and Joker ended up the victor...









Read the story to find out just who the Joker ACTUALLY killed!

74. "The Man Who Wrote Joker's Jokes" (1951's Batman #67)

Twenty-six years earlier, David Vern Reed wrote this entertaining story (with art by Lew Schwartz and Charles Paris, with Batman and Robin figures by Bob Kane) where the Joker finds that his schemes against Batman have grown boring. He comes across a great idea, just like how comics hire writers to come up with jokes for them, he hires gag writers to come up with crimes and schemes to make a fool out of Batman. After some success, he has an even bigger idea, what if he found a way to make BATMAN write Joker's next crime?









How will Batman get out of this jam?

73. "Sherlock Stalks the Joker" (1975's Joker #6)

Written by Denny O'Neil and drawn by Irv Novick and Tex Blaisdell, this charmingly off-beat story features an actor portraying Sherlock Holmes in a play get convinced that he IS Sherlock Holmes, and the Joker just can't help but try to mess with the detective...









Offbeat, but fun!

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72. "Crime-of-the-Month Club!" (1957's Batman #110)

Dave Wood, Dick Sprang and Charles Paris pull basically the reverse of the story on the previous page, "The Man Who Wrote Joker's Jokes," as in this tale, the Joker auctions off great criminal schemes to members of his Crime-of-the-Month Club!









What do you think Batman saw in that final panel?

71. "The Joker's Crime Costumes!" (1950's Batman #63)

Bill Finger, Dick Sprang and Charles Paris gave us this cute story of the Joker deciding that he was sick of Batman having an advantage by having special uniforms for special mission (like an underwater Batman costume), so he decided to use special costumes inspired by famous fictional comedic characters...









Fun, goofy stuff. Sort of the perfect sort of story for Sprang's style.

70. "Joker's Last Laugh" (1997's Batman and Robin Adventures #18)

In this story by Ty Templeton, Brandon Kruse and Terry Beatty, we see the Joker bored by crime, leading to Harley Quinn going out of her way to try to get a laugh out of the Joker...









How she eventually pulls it off is quite a delight.

69. "The Crazy Crime Clown!" (1952's Batman #74)

Alvin Schwartz was the brains behind this clever story (with art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris) where we see the Joker get sent to a mental institution for the first time. However, this time around, it is not because he is actually criminally insane, but because he wants to get information from another patient there (a guy who has forgotten where he hid some money he embezzled). Batman goes under cover as another patient (amusingly, another patient has the delusion that HE is Batman) and then, well, things fall into place with the skill of a fine writer like Schwartz...









Joker going back is just next level stuff by Schwartz, particularly for the era.

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68. "The Joker's Double Jeopardy" (1975's Joker #1)

Denny O'Neil, Irv Novick and Dick Giordano launched Joker's solo story with this engaging tale of Joker deciding to get into a competition of crime with Two-Face to prove that he is the superior criminal...









This story also features what I believe to be one of the earliest (if not THE earliest) usages of Joker's flower on his lapel squirting acid.

67. "The Joker's Journal" (1953's Detective Comics #193)

In this delightfully clever tale by David Vern Reed, Lew Schwartz and Charles Paris (with Batman and Robin figures by Bob Kane), the Joker is forced to run the prison newspaper. When he escapes, he rebels by creating a newspaper of CRIME!









Besides the hilarity of the actual newspaper (that is just downright funny by Reed, Schwartz and Paris), the cat and mouse game that happens when Batman goes undercover as one of Joker's employees is very impressive.

66. "The Joker's Tale" (2000's Birds of Prey #16)

Butch Guice began his run as the regular artist on Birds of Prey (joining writer Chuck Dixon, who had launched the series with Greg Land and Drew Geraci as the art team) with the previous issue, which ended with the Joker as an ambassador to the United Nations from Qurac announcing that he was ready to give peace a chance. We learn in this issue that what he meant by "peace" was blowing away all the people in New York City. So this issue has the Joker in a box being interrogated by Barbara Gordon, as she tries to find out how to stop his evil plot...









It's a taut, psychological thriller with a great twist at the end. Dixon did a marvelous job with the story and Guice was very impressive in doing what was pretty much literally the Joker alone in a box throughout most of the issue.

Check back tomorrow for the next five stories!