While details on Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok's upcoming Three Jokers miniseries are still scarce, Fabok's newly released cover may offer clues on what the DC Black Label title might entail.

First teased in the pages of 2015's Justice League #42 as part of Johns and Fabok's final Justice League story "Darkseid War", Batman got a glimpse at the hidden mysteries of the DC Universe by temporarily gaining the power of the New God Metron's Mobius Chair. While attempting to use the Chair to discover the Joker's true identity, the Dark Knight was shocked to discover that there are actually three Clown Princes of Crime.

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The mystery continued to simmer into the DC Rebirth era, with Batman editor Jamie S. Rich confirming at C2E2 this past April that Johns was indeed writing the story, with Fabok already hard at work illustrating the tale.

At his spotlight panel yesterday during Comic-Con International, Johns provided an update on Batman: Three Jokers, offering the most information about the story yet. The title will be a three-issue miniseries and part of DC's new imprint DC Black Label, which boasts all-star creative teams working on titles that, until now, have been set outside of the continuity of the main DC Universe. While Johns clarified that the miniseries would have repercussions that carry over into the DCU, he personally views the tale as more of a Joker story than a Batman one, though the Caped Crusader does play a central role, as do Barbara Gordon and Jason Todd.

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Perhaps most intriguingly, Johns also unveiled the first cover for the upcoming miniseries by Fabok, with colorist Brad Anderson, which potentially features clues hinting at what's to come with the eagerly anticipated story. And, just like the title and Johns' stance that the Joker is the true protagonist of the comic, those clues lie within the titular villains themselves.

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Evoking the iconic opening to Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's landmark 1988 Batman story, The Killing Joke, the cover shows Batman facing a trio of Jokers across an interrogation table while the Dark Knight draws three Joker cards from a playing card deck. Each of the villains sport a different yet familiar design as the confront their longtime foe.

During the SDCC panel, Johns commented that the story would center around the unresolved traumas the supervillain had inflicted on Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon and Jason Todd, aka The Red Hood and former Robin, over the course of their shared history, and each Joker looks to personify that association visually, each one apparently reflecting on a different Gotham City superhero affected by him.

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Todd, who was brutally murdered in the 1988 Batman story A Death in the Family by Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo, was beaten near to death by a crowbar-wielding Joker before being blown up; one of the Jokers visibly carries the bloody crowbar from the classic story.

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Gordon, who was infamously shot, crippled, and tortured by the Joker in The Killing Joke as part of a failed effort to drive her father, Commissioner Jim Gordon, insane, has her own traumatic history with the villain. One of the Jokers matches Bolland's design from the 1988 story, complete with long jacket and walking cane.

That leaves the third Joker, who is the biggest mystery in the entire image. With no clear prior inspiration, this version of the villain is the only one not smiling, which is historically a scary sight in and of itself. In the Johns-written 2006 DC crossover event Infinite Crisis, an unamused Joker went on a rampage, single-handedly wiping out the Royal Flush Gang and ultimately killing Alexander Luthor, a superhero from Earth-3. If the other two Jokers represent Jason Todd and Barbara Gordon's traumas, perhaps this Joker represents Bruce Wayne's?

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That leaves the playing cards. Sporting the same red back as the Joker's personal deck in the opening of The Killing Joke, the Joker design on the cards themselves bear Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson's initial sketches for the cards used by the villain during his debut in the pages of 1940's Batman #1. This might indicate that while the upcoming miniseries will narrow its focus to three villains, the story as a whole is likely an examination of the entire history of the character.

Finally, it looks like the Black Label story will see a role reversal between Batman and his most enduring enemy. In the original story, it was the Joker playing with his cards during their meeting in Arkham - until it was revealed that this "Joker" was actually an imposter. In Fabok's cover, Batman is playing with the cards while his Joker analogue is studying him intently, perhaps indicating that in addition to being a study of multiple Jokers, Johns and Fabok's story may also tell a tale of multiple Batmen as well.

While Batman: Three Jokers doesn't currently have a release date, Johns indicated at his SDCC panel that he hopes the miniseries will debut sometime this winter.