cesar romero played the original joker in the batman series.
cesar romero played the original joker in the batman series.
who played the original joker in the batman series?
cesar romero
he was hired to write comic book scripts by his friend, julius schwartz, an editor at dc comics. it was at dc where levine — who like all batman writers and artists of this time ghosted under bob kane's byline — would eventually become best known to batman fans as "david v. reed". reed's first story published by dc, "ride, bat-hombre, ride" in "batman" #56 (dec. 1949–jan. 1950) was the start of his first tenure chronicling batman's adventures. he and artist lew schwartz created the villain deadshot in "batman" #59 (july 1950). reed wrote such key stories as "the birth of batplane ii" in "batman" #61 (nov. 1950), "the joker's millions" and "two-face strikes again", the latter two featuring the return of the original villains introduced by kane and writer bill finger. another story from this period, "the joker's utility belt", once mistakenly believed to have been written by finger, was eventually adapted for cesar romero's first appearance as the joker on the 1960s "batman" television series, broadcast as the episodes "the joker is wild" and "batman gets riled". besides "batman", vern reed wrote for superman in "action comics", "world's finest comics" and several of dc's non-superhero series.
david vern reed
bullet::::- in "batman: i, joker" (1998), the gotham city of the future is ruled by a cult who worships batman and his descendant, the bruce. once every year, there are challengers who try to usurp the rule of batman, but even worse, this bruce has people taken off the street and has them turned into batman's old enemies complete with their memories. the newest joker, joe collins, kept his original memories due to the efforts of the bruce's surgeon, doc klibon, as a way of annoying him. joe, along with his friend marya, are freedom fighters trying to stop the bruce until a friend of theirs turn on them. joe finds the original batcave, and taking a batman outfit and the original joker's gun, confronts the bruce at his citadel. he spares the bruce's life, but marya, after being muted by the bruce, kills him herself. months later, the two are protecting gotham city as the new batman and robin.
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