The Batman Adventures: Mad Love
(DC, 1994, 2023, 2026)
™ and ©1994 DC Comics, Inc.
The Joker plays a winning hand at Arkham Asylum when he tricks his new psychologist, Harleen (“Harley”) Quinzel, into feeling sympathetic for him. Quinzel, a would–be pop psychologist with a flawed past of her own, falls madly in love with the Clown Price of Crime. After the object of her affections escapes the asylum and Batman returns him—badly scathed—she springs him herself, having donned a clown costume herself and calling herself Harley Quinn (“Harlequin“).
Harley becomes the Joker’s ill–regarded partner in crime, with a fantasy is of living happily ever after with the clownish madman. Instead, she ends up in a pop psychology nightmare. She’s in a dysfunctional relationship filled with betrayal, spousal abuse, fragile egos and denial—and even Batman can’t rescue her from her own mind.
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Regular Cover by Bruce Timm
Feb 1994
Cover: $3.95
W: Paul Dini · A: Bruce Timm
NN; Origin of Harley Quinn
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2026 Facsimile Edition with Cover G by Bruce Timm
Apr 2026
Cover: $6.99
W: Paul Dini · A: Bruce Timm
NN; Origin of Harley Quinn
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2nd Printing
Cover: $4.95
W: Paul Dini · A: Bruce Timm
NN; Origin of Harley Quinn; Prestige format
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3rd Printing
Cover: $5.95
W: Paul Dini · A: Bruce Timm
NN; Origin of Harley Quinn; Prestige format