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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65. "Trust" (2007's Detective Comics #833-834)

This two-parter is mostly remembered for writer Paul Dini bringing in the Zatanna/Batman childhood friendship that was established in the animated series into the comic book continuity. However, it also is an excellent Joker story, as well. Batman enlists the help of Zatanna when a popular magician seems to be doing deadly tricks. However, his greatest trick is the fact that he is secretly the Joker!









What a cliffhanger! Don Kramer and wayne Faucher supplied the artwork for this story.

64. "The Cross-Country Crimes" (1941's Batman #8)

It's funny, the voting was finished before I heavily featured this story in my spotlight on Batman's travels to each of the 50 states. In any event, this story by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos perfectly spotlighted the chaotic awesomeness that is the Joker. Batman and Robin are in Washington D.C. to receive an honor from, in effect, J. Edgar Hoover. And the Joker just shows up, shoots the head of the F.B.I. and then goes on a cross-country rampage!





What a full-page figure by Kane, Robinson and Roussos!

The Joker, as it turns out, has a specific plan for his cross-country crime spree and it involves leaving Batman clues as to which state he'll hit next, from New Jersey to Ohio to Kansas to Delaware to Rhode Island! Batman, though, is smarter than your average sadistic clown, so he ends up one step ahead of the clown prince of crime.

63. "Under the Red Hood, Part Two" (2005's Batman #646-650)

This was an odd storyline, in the sense that Judd Winick's story was broken up by a crossover in the middle of his "Return of Jason Todd" epic. Only the second part really involves the Joker, so I'm just mentioning those issues, which were drawn by Doug Mahnke, Shane Davis and Eric Battle (with a host of inkers).

In any event, Jason Todd reveals himself as having returned from the dead. He is calling himself the Red Hood and seems to be a criminal. As the story draws to a close, he kidnaps the man who murdered him the first time around, the Joker, to have a little heart to heart...









Whether you thought that it was a good idea to return Jason Todd from the dead or not, Winick handled it very well in this opening storyline.

Go to the next page for #62-59!

62. "The Last Ha Ha" (1975's The Joker #3)

Denny O'Neil was clearly having himself quite a time trying to come up with ideas to keep Joker's ongoing series fresh, and his best one yet was to have Steve Ditko's The Creeper fight against the Joker.









O'Neil takes it up another notch by having the Joker's plan involve kidnapping what seems to be a cross between Charles Schulz and Hank Ketcham and while waiting for a ransom to be paid for him, having him draw insulting comics featuring his creation, which the artist is happy to do because he hates his creation more than anyone!

Ernie Chan and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez supply the strong artwork.

61. "The Son of the Joker" (1961's Batman #145)

While they took a bit of a delay in getting to them, when the Bat-books picked up on Imaginary Stories, they did a great job with them. Bill Finger's approach was to have Alfred do pretty much fan fiction on what the future of Batman and Robin would look like when Dick Grayson takes over as Batman (complete with a handy Roman numeral II on his chest so that everyone knows that he is the second Batman) and the son of Bruce Wayne and Kathy Kane as his Robin. In this story, he shows the new Dynamic Duo's battle against the Son of the Joker!









Sheldon Moldoff did the artwork.

60. "The Joker's Millions" (1951's Detective Comics #180)

In this clever David Vern Reed story (with excellent Dick Sprang and Charles Paris artwork), the Joker inherits a vast fortune from a mob boss that had always been his rival. But as soon as the Joker grows comfortable with his newfound fortune...







The idea of the Joker being forced to commit crimes anonymously without his usual panache in an attempt to pay off a two million dollar tax bill so that he can avoid the rest of the criminal world knowing that he was conned? That's hilariously awesome!

59. "The Riddle of the Missing Card" (1940's Batman #5)

One of the interesting things about early Batman stories is that they were extremely influenced by the films of the era, and as the 1940s led to a period known as film noir, so, too, were the Batman stories given an intriguing noir-esque feel. "The Riddle of the Missing Card" is a fascinating tale of the Joker meeting a group of playing card themed crooks and they come up with a gambling plot. The story was written by Bill Finger and drawn by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos.







Queenie becomes a surprisingly poignant character by the end of the story.

Go to the next page for #58-56!

58. "Only Angels Have Wings" (1982's The Brave and the Bold #191)

This issue opens with the Joker seemingly murdering the Penguin, which leads to the striking sequence of the Joker approaching Batman for help, to help prove him innocent of the Penguin's murder! Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn wrote the issue and Jim Aparo drew it. Here, Joker explains to Batman how he investigated the murder of the Penguin...









There's a great sequence at the end where Batman actually tells the Joker "good job" when Joker breaks the case.

57. "This One'll Kill You, Batman!" (1974's Batman #260)

This ingenuious little story by Denny O'Neil has the Joker poison Batman with a drug that will make Batman slowly laugh himself to death within three days...









Irv Novick and Dick Giordano really drew the heck out of this story. The image of Batman laughing like the Joker is so striking.

56. "The Joker's Original Robberies" (1966's Batman #186)

Released right at the height of Bat-mania, this bizarre little tale has the Joker adopting as sort of his Robin the evil little person known as Gaggy. This leads to a whole new style of criminal schemes for the Joker...









John Broome came up with this outlandish tale, with artwork by Sheldon Moldoff and Joe Giella.

I think people might particularly remember the over-the-top cover for this issue, featuring Gaggy wrapped around Batman's head, covering his eyes while the Joker punches Batman.