HA HA HA! It's The Joker's 80th Anniversary!

MajorHoy wrote:The Joker returns in Batman #2 (Summer 1940) in a story involving Selina Kyle (referred to as both "The Cat" and "The Cat-woman").

Mbast1 wrote:

MajorHoy wrote:The Joker returns in Batman #2 (Summer 1940) in a story involving Selina Kyle (referred to as both "The Cat" and "The Cat-woman").

Again, thanks for posting all of these things, they are really fun!
Mike

tony ingram wrote:

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Was there only an entry for the Earth One Kathy in Who's Who?

I don't really think there was much to make a separate entry for an Earth-2 version. Was Earth-2 Batwoman in more stories than those two issues of The Brave and the Bold prior to 1985 / Crisis on Infinite Earths? (I always assumed the 1950-1960s stories were considered to be more "Silver Age"/Earth-1 and not "Golden Age"/Earth-2.)

And for the record, Catwoman had separate Earth-1 and Earth-2 entries, but then again, the Earth-2 version had married Bruce (and later died) while the Earth-1 version hadn't. But The Joker, who premiered in that same issue as "The Cat", and arguably had a helluva lot more Golden Age stories, didn't get separate Earth-2 and Earth-1 entries. (Neither did The Penguin.)

I know, I always thought that was a bit unfair myself! Earth Two Joker was easily as significant as Alexi Luthor, if not more so, but Luthor got an entry!

MajorHoy wrote:There were more differences between the Earth-2 and Earth-1 versions of Luthor, like the fact that Earth-1 Luthor was bald and blamed Superboy/Superman for his hair loss, while Earth-2 Luthor still had hair. Hell, even Mr. Mxyztplk / Mr. Mxyzptlk had different spellings and different costumes, so they at least got a split entry.
Joker has now been around for 80 years (45 at the time of CoIE), and I know we got The Three Jokers recently, but back in 1985, what were the differences between Earth-2 and Earth-1 Jokers (besides one being older)?