Joker: The Deluxe Edition

The award-winning creative team behind Batman: Damned, Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, present one of the most chilling Joker stories ever told. Presented in a beautiful new hardcover edition.

The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylu, and he's none too pleased to find out what has happened to his criminal empire while he's been away. The result is a harrowing night of revenge, murder, and mania as only the Clown Prince of Crime can deliver it--all seen through the eyes of a new right-hand man who helps him in his mission to brutally reclaim his territory from the Penguin, Two=Face, the Riddler, KillerCroc, and more.

Batman's greatest nemsis reaches new levels of complexity and intensity in this uniquely crafted story from the New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning team of Brian Azzarello and Lee Bernejo (Batman: Damned, Luthor). Collecting the acclaimed graphic novel in a special hardcover volume, Joker: The Deluxe Edition features a wealth of behind-the-scenes material from the writer adn artist and also includes their all-new story from The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular.

Brian Azzarello has been writing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. He is the author of Jonny Double, Batman: Broken City, and the Harvey and Eisner Award-winning 100 Bullets, all created in collaboration with artist Eduardo Risso. Azzarello’s other work for DC includes Hellblazer and Loveless with Marcelo Frusin; Dark Knight III: The Master Race with Frank Miller, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson; Superman: For Tomorrow with Jim Lee; Joker and Luthor with Lee Bermejo; Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and A Hard Place with Joe Kubert; Filthy Rich with Victor Santos; and most recently the all-new ongoing series Wonder Woman with Cliff Chiang.

Lee Bermejo began drawing comics in 1997 for WildStorm Studios in San Diego at age 19. He collaborated with acclaimed writer Brian Azzarello on the graphic novels Joker and Luthor, and worked with writer John Arcudi on the Superman feature in Wednesday Comics. He has also worked on Hellblazer with Mike Carey and Global Frequency with Warren Ellis. Bermejo has illustrated the covers to the line of Vertigo Crime graphic novels, beginning with Filthy Rich, written by Brian Azzarello, and Dark Entries, written by Ian Rankin. Bermejo has lived in Italy since 2003.