JOKER 3
(1975)
One of
my all-time favorite DC single issues. Picked it up as a back issue as a kid.
Joker vs. Creeper!
The
late, great Denny O’Neil wrote this one for the unique art team of Ernie Chua
and JL Garcia Lopez. Chua did that swell cover as well. Story has Joker and
Creeper having a massive fight in a junkyard (!) that ends with Creeper with amnesia
and captured by Joker. Joker decides to kidnap cartoonist Sandy Saturn, creator
of hit comic strip Cashews. (Yes, it’s Charles Schulz and Peanuts…)
Joker
talks the amnesiac Creeper into helping him. He does and there’s this bizarre
mini-plot of the cartoonist hating the strip so much that when Joker tells him
to draw Joker kicking his characters, he gladly does. Was this some kind of
Schulz/Peanuts thing in the 70s? No idea…
Wraps up
with Creeper changing back into Jack Ryder and regaining his memory…Another big
fight ensues, with Creeper knocking out Joker by punching a Batman punching bag
into him…Great stuff…
Creeper
always has been a favorite of mine and Joker of course is a central figure of
the DC Universe…Great figure work and fight scenes here by Chua and Garcia
Lopez…This one’s a lost gem…
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