Issue Shadow of the Bat 37
Subtitle The Joker part one: The King of Comedy
Date April 1995
Writer(s) Alan Grant
Artist(s) Barry Kitson, John Stokes
storyline Joker escaped his temporary holding at Blackgate (after the damage done to Arkham Asylum). Jeremiah Arkham, having reservations about Batman, hired a man calling himself Wild to bring him back. Joker's men began kidnapping former members of the Gotham University Comedy Club.