Batman: The Official Comic Adaptation of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture

 BTOP   (DC, 1989)

™ and ©1989 DC Comics

The 1989 release of Batman was a huge hit, breaking box office records and successfully transferring the mystique of the Dark Knight to the silver screen. This was a marked contrast to the campy Batman of 1960s television, and the little-noticed movie it had spawned.

Released in both regular and prestige formats, this comic adapted the 1989 blockbuster in comic book form. It told how a mobster named Jack Napier was set up by his boss and cornered by police at the Axis Chemical plant. During flight, he was across the face by a face by a bullet and fell into a vat of chemicals. He survived—barely—but the chemicals had bleached his skin white and turned his hair a bright green. Moreover, the bullet had severed muscled in his face, leaving him with a ghastly perpetual smile. When he resurfaced, Jack Napier was no more—instead, he was the Joker, a mad killer whom only Batman could stop.

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  1/1/1989 Cover Price:  $2.50 NM Guide:  $3.00 17 copies available from $1.00	Newsstand format; Comic adaptation of Warner Bros. Movie	Denny O’Neil	Jerry Ordway
	#1 Prestige Edition Date:  1/1/1989 Cover Price:  $4.95 NM Guide:  $3.25 10 copies available from $2.49	Comic adaptation of Warner Bros. Movie	Denny O’Neil	Jerry Ordway
	#1 Prestige Edition (2nd printing) Date:  Cover Price:  $4.95 NM Guide:  $3.75 1 copy available for $3.75	2nd printing	Denny O’Neil	Jerry Ordway