The Brave and the Bold #111

Few team-ups in 1974 DC history felt as genuinely bizarre as Batman defending the Joker — yet that's exactly the jaw-dropping scene Jim Aparo delivers on this cover, with a determined Dark Knight standing between armed police officers and a grinning, purple-suited Clown Prince of Crime, shouting "Nobody lays a hand on my partner while I'm around!" A "Wanted: The Joker" poster looms on the wall behind them, making the whole standoff feel wonderfully absurd. Subtitled "Death Has the Last Laugh," this issue of The Brave and the Bold promises that the strangest team-up in history is every bit as wild as it sounds.