The Joker begins a new adventure while the origin of Gotham City is explored in the new releases for DC Comics.

Out on Tuesday is The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1, the start of a new series for the Clown Prince of Crime by writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Carmine Di Giandomenico. The title serves as a sequel to the previous The Joker series written by James Tynion IV with various artists, which saw the Batman villain trying to take some time away from Gotham City while Jim Gordon, Bane's daughter, and the cannibalistic Sampson family are after him. The Man Who Stopped Laughing is set to follow "mayhem across the United States," and the Joker will have to face Red Hood/Jason Todd -- a hero murdered by the Joker when he was Batman's sidekick -- and an imposter pretending to be the villain.

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While the Joker travels the country, Gotham City: Year One also launches this week to tell the locale's dark origin. Written by Tom King with art by Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur, the title will be a six-issue miniseries exploring how the city that Batman defends "became a cesspool of violence and corruption" that allowed for the rise of the Dark Knight's various rogues. Set decades in the past, the story's protagonist will be a private investigator, Slam Bradley, as he looks into the kidnapping of the Wayne family heir.

Outside of Gotham and its villains, also out is the continuation of the Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths event with the release of the series' fifth issue and the Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green one-shot tie-in. Readers can also pick up the penultimate issues of Poison Ivy and Multiversity: Teen Justice, as well as the final one-shot prelude to the upcoming Black Adam film focusing on Pierce Brosnan's Doctor Fate. The full list of releases can be found alphabetically below, covers and solicitations included.

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BATMAN #128

  • Written by CHIP ZDARSKY
  • Art and cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
  • Backup art by LEONARDO ROMERO
  • Variant cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO and FRANCESCO MATTINA
  • 1:25 variant cover by RYAN SOOK
  • 1:50 foil variant cover by JOCK
  • $4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • Failsafe has taken his family, his allies, and now his city…Broken and beaten, Batman retreats to the last place on Earth he can hide…but nothing can truly hide from Failsafe!
  • In the backup…Batman has prepared his mind for anything, or so he thought. We go back to his early days and a chilling case that led to…Failsafe!
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BATMAN - KNIGHTWATCH #2

  • Written by J. TORRES
  • Art and cover by MARCELO DI CHIARA
  • $2.99 US | 32 pages | 2 of 5
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • When Penguin saves people from a mugging, Batman is certain he’s up to no good.
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BLACK ADAM – THE JUSTICE SOCIETY FILES: DOCTOR FATE #1

  • Written by CAVAN SCOTT and BRYAN Q. MILLER
  • Art by JESÚS MERINO and MARCO SANTUCCI
  • Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
  • Photo variant cover
  • $5.99 US | 48 pages | One-shot | Variant $6.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • Long ago, Kent Nelson donned an ancient helmet and became Doctor Fate, defender of order in a universe dominated by chaos. Now he is an impossibly old man, haunted both by memories of a past spent with the now-defunct Justice Society and by visions of an apocalyptic future. When a group of children unwittingly unleash an infernal menace on the Earth, can Kent maintain his humanity while defending those who need him most? The road to Black Adam concludes.
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DARK CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #5

  • Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
  • Art and cover by DANIEL SAMPERE and ALEJANDRO SÁNCHEZ
  • Variant cover by IVAN REIS and DANNY MIKI
  • 1:25 variant cover by ARIEL COLON
  • 1:50 variant cover by MIKEL JANÍN
  • 1:100 foil variant cover by DANIEL SAMPERE and ALEJANDRO SÁNCHEZ
  • Identity Crisis homage variant cover by MATEUS MANHANINI
  • $4.99 | 32 pages | 5 of 7 | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • WAR AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE!
  • After the shocking events of the last issue, Pariah has won. And now his Dark Army is poised for the invasion of our world. It’s up to the Titans to rally the remaining heroes to defeat Deathstroke’s ever-growing forces and avert total destruction! An epic war starts on the steps of the Hall of Justice, and only a miracle could help the heroes now.
  • But all hope is not lost, as the worlds without a Justice League have begun to loosen their grip…but can the heroes return to Earth if it means one member of the Justice League could be lost forever?
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DARK CRISIS: THE DEADLY GREEN #1

  • Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, DAN WATTERS, RAM V, and others
  • Art by DANIEL BAYLISS and others
  • Cover by GOÑI MONTES
  • Variant cover by FELIPE MASSAFERA
  • 1:25 foil variant cover by STEVE BEACH
  • $5.99 | 48 pages | One-shot
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • SUPERMAN AND SWAMP THING UNCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE GREAT DARKNESS!
  • During the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, Swamp Thing encountered and formed a truce with the Great Darkness, but this ancient force has been awakened by Pariah and now its influence is felt across the Multiverse. Now the Avatar of the Green must work together with new allies to investigate how far it’s spread and why it would work with Pariah. If they want to stop the Great Darkness from swallowing the Green, they need some extra help…ENTER: SUPER SWAMP THING.
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GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE #1

  • Written by TOM KING
  • Art and cover by PHIL HESTER and ERIC GAPSTUR
  • Variant cover by RYAN SOOK
  • 1:25 variant cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
  • $4.99 US | 40 pages | 1 of 6
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That’s about to change.
  • Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the “kidnapping of the century” as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night…and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn.
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THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #1

  • Written by MATTHEW ROSENBERG
  • Art and cover by CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO
  • Backup art by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
  • Variant covers by LEE BERMEJO and DAVID NAKAYAMA
  • 1:25 variant cover by FRANCESCO MATTINA
  • 1:50 variant cover by BEN OLIVER
  • 1:100 variant cover by HAINING
  • Madness foil Variant by DAVID NAKAYAMA
  • $5.99 US | 40 pages | (All covers card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • The world once again holds its breath as The Joker strikes again! But how far is he willing to go this time? From the twisted minds of Matthew Rosenberg (Task Force Z, What’s the Furthest Place from Here?) and Carmine Di Giandomenico (Batman: The Knight) comes a violent, mind-bending new series that picks up from the cataclysmic end of The Joker and follows the mayhem across the United States. With the Clown Prince of Crime setting out on his most bizarre caper yet, will a fan-favorite vigilante be able to prevent certain tragedy? Or is he in on the joke?
  • In the back-up—Joker's got a hot date but he's going to need a mirror to make sure he looks nice. Maybe Mirror Master can help.
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MAD MAGAZINE #28 - 70TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

  • Written by USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS
  • Art by CRAYON WIELDING USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS
  • Cover by MARK FREDRICKSON
  • $5.99 US | 56 pages
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • Celebrate 70 years of humor in a jugular vein with MAD issue #28. Includes ALL-NEW pieces from the NYC Usual Gang of Idiots. Plus new Spy Vs. Spy, full-length MAD movie parody, and work by Sergio Aragonés. Deluxe 5-color cover art and special fold-in that folds in on itself! Special shout-out from “Weird Al” Yankovic! MAD classics from every decade! So grab a drink and have a slice of commemorative MAD cake! It’s historically dry! (Since it’s made out of paper!)
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MONKEY PRINCE #7

  • Written by GENE LUEN YANG 楊謹倫
  • Art and cover by BERNARD CHANG 張伯納
  • Variant cover by MARCUS TO 杜世柱
  • 1:25 variant cover by DEXTER SOY
  • $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • The Jingu bang has stretched so large and long that it has become a nuisance to Atlantis, and so Aquaman goes to find who is responsible for this ginormous golden staff that destroyed so much of his city. The good news is, the Jingu bang can shrink back to normal size, but only the Monkey King is worthy enough to wield its magical properties—will the staff recognize Monkey Prince as good enough to do the same?
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MULTIVERSITY: TEEN JUSTICE #5

  • Written by DANNY LORE and IVAN COHEN
  • Art by MARCO FAILLA
  • Cover by ROBBI RODRIGUEZ
  • Variant cover by STEPHANIE HANS
  • Black Adam movie variant cover by LEE BERMEJO
  • 3.99 US | 32 pages | 5 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • One of Earth-11’s bravest and boldest heroes makes the ultimate sacrifice to save one of their allies in Teen Justice! But can even that selfless choice turn the tide against the Core, whose plans involve the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of people? And what will survivor’s guilt do to the teen champion who didn’t want to be saved at such a heartbreaking cost? There’s only one issue left, but we’re not slowing down on the way to the finish line!
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POISON IVY #5

  • Written by G. WILLOW WILSON
  • Art by MARCIO TAKARA
  • Cover by JESSICA FONG
  • Variant covers by STJEPAN ŠEJIĆ and DAVID TALASKI
  • 1:25 variant cover by TULA LOTAY
  • $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • Hello, sweetie, you’re absolutely pathetic. You know that, right? Luckily for you, Daddy’s home and he’s here to make all the bad feelings go away. As Ivy prepares to go international with her mission to save the Earth, there’s only one thing standing in her way—the brave man whom Ivy stole her powers from.
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SWORD OF AZRAEL #3

  • Written by DAN WATTERS
  • Art and cover by NIKOLA ČIŽMEŠIJA
  • Variant cover by STEVE BEACH
  • 1:25 variant cover by JORGE CORONA
  • $3.99 US | 32 pages | 3 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
  • ON SALE 10/4/22
  • Jean-Paul Valley’s path to righteousness continues as he uncovers the antediluvian crucible that gave shape to the first Azrael centuries ago. Buried deep within the heart of an active volcano, its halls hold the secrets of the Order of St. Dumas…and the great beast who lived through it all.

All of these issues go on sale Oct. 4 from DC Comics.

Source: DC Comics