The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... The Joker and Harley Quinn

Who is the Joker?

When his robbery of the Ace Chemical Plant was interrupted by Batman, a criminal known as the 'Red Hood' accidentally fell into a vat of chemicals. Emerging from the runoff with his skin turned chalk-white and his hair dyed bright green, he was driven mad by the experience and embraced a darkly humorous view on existence. Rebranding himself as The Joker, he now uses his arsenal of deadly gags and his trademark grin-inducing toxin to challenge Batman and his allies.

Who is Harley Quinn?

Arkham Asylum psychologist Harleen Quinzel fell in love with her patient, the Joker, and became his sidekick, altering her name to Harley Quinn. They became a villainous duo, but after being disrespected by him one too many times, Harley eventually left the Clown Prince of Crime and struck out on her own as a freelance anti-hero.

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The Joker. Volume one
Tynion, James, IV
Paper Book
Batman- The Joker War was only the beginning! Arkham Asylum has been attacked and all eyes are on the Joker. A mysterious benefactor hires former Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon to go on a global manhunt to catch...and possibly kill...the Clown Prince of...
Batman : the killing joke
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
A New York Times best-seller Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Bolland, Batman: The Killing Joke is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy....
Joker
Azzarello, Brian.
Paper Book
An original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City-from the creative team behind the graphic novel Lex Luthor- Man of Steel. The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none to happy about what's happened to...
Batman Arkham Asylum : a serious house on serious earth
Morrison, Grant
Paper Book
The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham's detention center for the criminally insane on April Fool's Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face and...
Superman : Emperor Joker
Loeb, Jeph.
Paper Book
The "Emperor Joker" storyline crossed through several comics as The Joker obtains the ability to alter reality, becomes Emperor of the Universe, and set the world into a repetitive loop. Every day, he tortures and kills Batman, brings him back to life, and starts over the next day. Superman must...
Batman, the Dark Knight returns
Miller, Frank
Paper Book
Written by Frank Miller; Art and Cover by Miller and Klaus Janson It is ten years after an aging Batman has retired and Gotham City has sunk deeper into decadence and lawlessness. Now as his city needs him most, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of glory. Joined by Carrie Kelly, a teenage female...
Batman. Europa
Casali, Matteo
Paper Book
The greatest talents of American and European comics unite for a Batman story like none other! Written by Matteo Casali (CATWOMAN) and Brian Azzarello (DARK KNIGHT III- THE MASTER RACE), BATMAN- EUROPA features art by superstar Jim Lee (JUSTICE LEAGUE) as well as European comics artist superstars...
Batman. Three Jokers
Johns, Geoff
Paper Book
Who are the three jokers? Batman doesn't understand how or why, but the fact is certain- the man he has spent a lifetime chasing isn't one man at all. There are three Jokers. Now that he knows the unbelievable truth, Bruce needs real answers. Joined by Barbara Gordon and Jason...
Batman. Damned
Azzarello, Brian
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling graphic novel! The Joker has been murdered. His killer is a mystery. Batman is the World's Greatest Detective. But what happens when the person he is searching for is the man staring back at him in the mirror? THE JOKER IS DEAD.
Joker/Harley : criminal sanity
Garcia, Kami
Paper Book
Murder is his art. Catching killers is hers. In Gotham City, heinous acts of violence are a daily occurrence. Harley Quinn, forensic psychiatrist and profiler, consults with the GCPD on their worst cases. But she is fixated on an unsolved murder that haunts her-the night...
Batman. Under the red hood
Winick, Judd
Paper Book
Batman is confronted with a hidden face from the past-it's the return of the vigilante Red Hood who appears to be Batman's one-time partner Jason Todd, the same Jason Todd that died many years ago. But the Red Hood's violent ways pit him against the Dark Knight in his hunt for the very person...
Batman. Volume 3, Death of the Family
Snyder, Scott
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller! One year ago, the Joker limped off the streets of Gotham, mutilated and scarred when someone had taken the pale white skin right off of his face. But now, the Dark Knight's greatest foe has returned but for once, Batman doesn't...
Batman : last knight on Earth
Snyder, Scott
Paper Book
Powerhouse creative team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (Batman- The Court of Owls, Dark Nights- Metal) conclude a decade-long partnership with the Caped Crusader in Batman- Last Knight on Earth. Twenty years in the future, Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham...
Batman. Vol. 4, The war of jokes and riddles
King, Tom
Ebook
Gotham Central. Book two, Jokers and madmen
Brubaker, Ed.
Paper Book
Witness the gritty side of the Gotham City Police Department from their perspective, as they take on psychotic criminals like The Joker and grudgingly look to The Dark Knight for help. This volume collects two cases of the Gotham Special Crimes Unit. First, The Joker terrorizes the city at...
Batman. Vol. 2 The Joker War
Tynion, James, IV
Paper Book
This is it- the Clown Prince of Crime battles the Dark Knight Detective head-to-head for the last time. And one way or another, this will be the final chapter of their agelong conflict. The Clown Prince of Crime and the Dark Knight Detective go head-to-head for the last time. The...
The Batman who laughs
Snyder, Scott
Paper Book
A New York Times bestselling graphic novel! "A Batman who laughs is a Batman who always wins." He unleashed the Dark Multiverse in the epic series Dark Nights- Metal. Now superstar writer Scott Snyder reunites with acclaimed artist Jock (Batman-...
Dark Nights: Death Metal
Capullo, Greg
Paper Book
When the Earth is enveloped by the Dark Multiverse, the Justice League is at the mercy of the Batman Who Laughs-who is reborn as the Darkest Knight! Humanity struggles to survive in a hellish landscape twisted beyond recognition, and Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman are trapped...
Batman : white knight
Murphy, Sean Gordon
Paper Book
A Newsweek Best Graphic Novel of the Year The impossible has happened- The Joker has become a ... hero? Batman- White Knight follows the man now known as Jack Napier as he embarks on a quest to heal the city he once terrorized. After reconciling with...
Batman. Curse of the White Knight
Murphy, Sean Gordon
Paper Book
Ancient curses are awoken and timeless secrets are revealed in this Eisner Award nominated and explosive sequel to the critically acclaimed blockbuster Batman- White Knight from writer/artist Sean Murphy! The Joker recruits Azrael to help him expose a shocking secret about...
Batman '66. Vol. 3
Parker, Jeff
Paper Book
Back to the Swingin' 60s as DC Comics reimagines the classic Batman TV series in comics form.  These all-new stories portray The Caped Crusader, The Boy Wonder and their fiendish rogues gallery just the way viewers remember them. In this volume, the Dynamic Duo face the Joker,...
Batman & Robin adventures. Volume 1
Dini, Paul
Ebook
Harley and Ivy, the deluxe edition
Dini, Paul
Paper Book
The complete BATMAN: HARLEY AND IVY miniseries, accompanied by more than 100 pages of Paul Dini's other stories featuring the villainous BFFs. Breaking the law is never more fun than when your best friend's beside you! Writer PAUL DINI and artist BRUCE TIMM, the creative minds behind...
Harley Quinn, the animated series. vol. 1, The eat. bang! kill. tour
Franklin, Tee
Ebook
Gotham City Sirens. book one
Dini, Paul
Paper Book
From Emmy and Eisner Award-winning Paul Dini (DETECTIVE COMICS, Batman: The Animated Series) comes GOTHAM CITY SIRENS BOOK ONE! Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn--they're beautiful, they're deadly, and for the first time in their lives, all three are trying to fly on...
Suicide Squad. Volume 1, Kicked in the teeth
Glass, Adam
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller! As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics-The New 52 event of September 2011, writer and co-creator of the CW show Supernatural Adam Glass rolls out an all-new team of death-row super villains recruited by the government to take on missions so...
Suicide squad. Volume 2, Basilisk rising
Glass, Adam
Paper Book
As the surviving Squad members attempt to recover from their disastrous Gotham City mission, we learn a dark secret that hasbeen festering in the team since issue #1- a traitor stalks the Suicide Squad! The saboteur's mission- Assassinate Amanda Waller,expose the Squad and leave Task Force X in...
Suicide Squad. Volume 3, Death is for suckers
Glass, Adam
Paper Book
The Suicide Squad returns with an action packed tie-in to the Batman "Death of the Family" story! As the Suicide Squad closes in on Basilisk leader Regulus, Deadshot and Harley discover multiple Basilisk sleeper agents within their ranks. Regulus makes one final desparate gamble to save...
Suicide Squad. Volume 4, Discipline and Punish
Kot, Ales
Paper Book
New team members, new direction, new creative team! After the Suicide Squad is nearly massacred, the team returns to Belle Reve to lick their wounds and bury their dead--but when they find out what's waiting for them at the prison, they'll wish they were back out in the field! Task Force X has a new...
Suicide Squad. Volume 5, Walled in
Kindt, Matt
Paper Book
Our world belongs to the Crime Syndicate! With Forever Evil sweeping across the DC Universe, the Suicide Squad find themselves in a world full of villians now free from their shackles -- Belle Reve! And now with the Reverse Suicide Squad taking over Belle Reve, Amanda Waller and James...
New Suicide Squad. Volume 1, Pure insanity
Ryan, Sean
Paper Book
Once a secret to even the highest government officials, the Suicide Squad has emerged from FOREVER EVIL as one of its most popular programs. Its mission- to send incarcerated super villains to carry out impossible missions on foreign soil in exchange for a commuted prison sentence. If...
Harley Quinn. Volume 1, Hot in the city
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
Fresh from Batman- Death of The Family and Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (All Star Western) and Amanda Conner (Before Watchmen- Silk Spectre) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting dc universe,...
Harley Quinn. Volume 2, Power outage
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
Watch out fanboys, cosplayers and comic nerds alike, Harley Quinn is inbound for San Diego Comic-Con!
Harley Quinn. Volume 3, Kiss kiss bang stab
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
NOW HIRING: ASSISTANT HARLEYS! What with working full time as a psychiatrist, managing an apartment building full of needy tenants and rambunctious pets, skating in the roller derby and trying to start up a new romance, Harley Quinn has precious little time left over for her mission of...
Harley Quinn. Volume 5, The Joker's last laugh
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
Harley's got an endangered friend to save, but there's just one problem- she's got to get through Arkham Asylum first! Unsurprisingly, Harley's not eager to set foot in the site of some of her darkest hours...and she definitely isn't ready to face a certain someone who's laughing at the end of a...
Harley Quinn. Vol. 1, Die laughing
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
Harley Quinn's crazy world on has gotten even more crazier when an unexpected, contagious enemy comes to town! Protecting her neighborhood just got a little harder, good thing they have chainsaws! Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti continue their mammoth run on this New...
Harley Quinn. Vol. 3, Red meat
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
The latest chapter in the smash-hit action-comedy saga from Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, John Timms and more is here in HARLEY QUINN VOL. 3: RED MEAT!   With her life finally clear of psychotic clowns, Harley Quinn is eager for things in Coney Island to get back to (ab)normal. If...
Harley Quinn. Vol. 5, Vote Harley
Conner, Amanda
Paper Book
Time to hit the polls, New York City. Harley's on the ballot in Harley Quinn Vol. 5- Vote Harley! If you thought politics were a dirty business already, wait till you get a load of Quinn! Ever since Harley Quinn relocated from Gotham City to the Big Apple,...
Harley Quinn. Vol. 6, Angry bird
Tieri, Frank
Paper Book
Harley Quinn and her motley crew of Coney Island misfits have fought hella hard--and sacrificed a helluva lot--to make the Mistress of Mayhem the undisputed queen of the Brooklyn streets. But when an airborne predator and a waterfowl most foul make their moves on her turf, what's a girl to do?<...
Suicide Squad. Vol. 1, The black vault
Williams, Rob
Paper Book
Harley Quinn. Deadshot. Killer Croc. Enchantress. Captain Boomerang. Katana. They're dangerous. They're deadly. They're deeply unstable. And they're our only hope. They're the characters from the smash-hit film and they're here in this great new starting-point graphic novel, SUICIDE SQUAD VOL. 1-...
Suicide Squad. Vol. 2, Going sane
Williams, Rob
Paper Book
From writer Rob Williams, superstar artist Jim Lee and Philip Tan comes the new Suicide Squad! The government has once again handpicked the worst of the worst for its Task Force X- Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Katana and Killer Croc. Following their clash with the Justice...
Suicide Squad: Bad Blood
Taylor, Tom.
Paper Book
There's no "love" in "team"! When the Suicide Squad is assigned to neutralize a group of international super-terrorists known as the Revolutionaries, the last thing they expect is for the survivors to join the team! Who can Squad veterans Harley Quinn and Deadshot trust when...
Suicide Squad : blaze
Spurrier, Simon
Paper Book
To catch a monster, you have to become one-but some folks have a head start. The critically acclaimed John Constantine- Hellblazer team deploy Task Force X on their most brutal and bizarre mission yet! The attacks begin without warning. Brutal, sudden...cannibalistic. A...
Harley Quinn Vol. 1: No Good Deed
Ha, Gene
Paper Book
Harley Quinn here to let everyone know that I'm starring in a brand-new graphic novel collection with a brand-new status quo! I'm coming back to Gotham City to make up for the sins of my past, and to help the city recover from the Joker War! But there's no welcoming committee...
Harley and Ivy meet Betty and Veronica
Dini, Paul
Paper Book
The bad girls of Gotham meet the good girls of Riverdale! Hiram Lodge wants to invest in the future by building a university with free tuition for Riverdale's residents. His site is a protected swamp on the outskirts of town and once news of the plan reaches Gotham City, a...
DC pride 2021
Ayala, Vita
Paper Book
DC celebrates Pride with this incredible collection starring fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Midnighter, Extrano, Batwoman, Aqualad, Alan Scott, Obsidian, Future State Flash, Renee Montoya, Pied Piper, and many more! DC Pride 2021 collects DC Pride<...
Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey: the Hunt for Harley
Palmiotti, Jimmy
Paper Book
Who's crazy enough to steal from the Joker? Come on. You know who. Harley Quinn has avoided Gotham City ever since she broke up with the Joker and found a home, and a kind of family, in Coney Island. But when she gets an offer she can't refuse,...
Harley Quinn: Reckoning
Allen, Rachael.
Paper Book
In this new launch of a trilogy within the DC Icons universe, experience the origin story of a Super-Villain. This is the Harley Quinn backstory fans have been waiting for. When Harleen Quinzel scores an internship in a psych lab at Gotham University, she's more than...
Harley Quinn : breaking glass : a graphic novel
Tamaki, Mariko
Paper Book
Mulitple Eisner Award Nominee, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass features the outspoken, rebellious, and eccentric fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel. With five dollars to her name, she's sent to live in Gotham City after battling a lot of hard situations as a kid. But everything changes when...
Harleen
Sejic, Stjepan
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller! Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory- mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most- one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic...
Batman. Vol. 1, Their dark designs
Tynion, James, IV
Paper Book
Who has designs on the Dark Knight? It's a new day in Gotham. Bane has been vanquished, but both the city and its champion are still struggling to pick up the pieces. Deathstroke, the world's greatest mercenary, is back in town under a new contract. Soon other hired...
Batman: Arkham Asylum : living hell, the deluxe edition
Slott, Dan
Paper Book
Written by DAN SLOTT Art by RYAN SOOK and WADE VON GRAWBADGER Painted Cover by ERIC POWELL Collecting the edgy 6-issue miniseries, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL examines the dark underbelly of Gotham's notorious "House of Madness!" Warren White, one of Gotham's most successful financiers, thought he...

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