• No. 1 (May–June 1975) - "The Joker's Double Jeopardy!": When a villain named Senor Alvarez breaks
Batman's enemy
Two-Face out of
Arkham Asylum and insults the Joker as being "not a superior criminal", the Joker breaks out of Arkham and decides to both get revenge and prove he
is a "superior" criminal. • No. 2 (July–August 1975) - "The Sad Saga of Willy the Weeper!": The Joker teams up with a villain called Willy the Weeper, who has a habit of crying when he tries to commit a crime and laughing when he sees others cry, to help him steal platinum after Willy the Weeper breaks him out. • No. 3 (September–October 1975) - "The Last Ha Ha": After a battle with the Joker, the
Creeper gets amnesia and is persuaded by the Joker that he is the Joker's ally. • No. 4 (November–December 1975) - "A Gold Star for the Joker": The Joker falls in love with DC hero the
Green Arrow's girlfriend
Dinah Laurel Lance and gives her a choice: marry the Joker or die! • No. 5 (January–February 1976) - "The Joker Goes 'Wilde'!": The Joker competes with
Justice League foes the
Royal Flush Gang for four valuable paintings done by the late artist Thaddeus Wilde. • No. 6 (March–April 1976) - "Sherlock Stalks the Joker!": When the Joker hits Clive Sigerson, an actor playing the famous detective
Sherlock Holmes, on his head with a pipe, Sigerson believes he
is Holmes and that the Joker is Holmes' archenemy,
Professor Moriarty. "Holmes" "stalks" the Joker with the help of a stagehand sent to follow him (who used to be a sailor who worked on the docks) named "Dock" Watson. • No. 7 (May–June 1976) - "Luthor -- You're Driving Me Sane!": An experiment of
Superman villain
Lex Luthor's goes awry (thanks to the Joker's interference) and gives the Joker Luthor's genius and Luthor the Joker's insanity. • No. 8 (July–August 1976) - "The Scarecrow's Fearsome Face-Off!": When the Joker steals some "fear-gas" from
S.T.A.R. Labs, he ends up competing with fellow
Batman villain the
Scarecrow to see whose "fear-based" weapon is the best. The Joker wins. • No. 9 (September–October 1976) - "The Cat and the Clown!": The Joker and Batman's "
frenemy"
Catwoman end up competing for a movie actor's trained feline sidekick. Catwoman's victory leads to a two-way rivalry... • No. 10 (October–December 2019) - "99 and 99/100% Dead!": The Joker makes a deal with "Lou Cipher" to defeat the Justice League and kill a scientist developing a health serum. After defeating the
Flash, the
Black Canary, the Green Arrow, and
Wonder Woman, the Joker discovers that, while they lack pulses, the League members continue to have brainwaves.
Unpublished issue #10 The letters page of
The Joker #9 (Sept.–Oct. 1976) mentions that
Martin Pasko was writing a Joker vs. the
Justice League of America story titled "99 and 99/100% Dead!" to appear in
The Joker #10 as the first part of a two- or three-issue story arc, which
was never published despite being listed as "on sale right now" on the
Daily Planet promotional page for August 16, 1976. In the end notes of
The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1989), it is noted that
The Joker editor
Julius Schwartz had no recollection of this story ever being completed, but Pasko found xeroxed pages of the story which he sold on
eBay in 2011. A cover for issue #10 was drawn by
Ernie Chan, but was not finished at the time.
The Joker #10 was published for the first time on August 14, 2019, in DC's
The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus (which also contains
The Joker #1-9 as well as other DC Comics Joker stories from the 1970s) and as a stand-alone issue on October 3. == Collected editions ==