The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1
Cover B · Lee Bermejo card stock variant · series premiere · original first printing · Collect Forever Soft Slab
4 October 2022 on sale · December 2022 cover date
Series-premiere issue of Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine Di Giandomenico's Joker follow-up, launched in October 2022 and ultimately running twelve issues. DC describes it as picking up from the cataclysmic end of the preceding The Joker series.
Read the catalogue note →- Issue
- #1
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- State
- Collect Forever Soft Slab · ungraded
- Condition
- Near Mint appearance within Collect Forever Soft Slab — ungraded.
- Completeness
- Appears complete as encapsulated. Front and reverse are visible, but the interior has not been physically collated and staples, centre spread and page sequence cannot be independently inspected while the Soft Slab remains closed.
- Rarity
- Not assessed
Catalogue note
Series-premiere issue of Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine Di Giandomenico's Joker follow-up, launched in October 2022 and ultimately running twelve issues. DC describes it as picking up from the cataclysmic end of the preceding The Joker series. This copy is the open-order Lee Bermejo Cover B card-stock state, pairing the launch of the new narrative with an artist already strongly associated with darker, naturalistic Joker imagery. The physical object also preserves a contemporaneous Black Adam theatrical advertisement, useful paratext for DC's 2022 comics-to-screen promotional ecosystem.
Writer: Matthew Rosenberg
Artist: Carmine Di Giandomenico; Arif Prianto (colours); Francesco Francavilla (backup story); Tom Napolitano (letters)
Cover: Lee Bermejo
Edition: Cover B · Lee Bermejo card stock variant · Collect Forever designation #1B · original first printing · UPC 76194137651600121 · Lunar 0822DC020
Why this object matters
Bermejo’s Joker cover and the period Black Adam advertisement connect the 2022 series launch to established artist and film-promotion contexts. The regular variant is meaningful evidence, but neither a follow-up launch nor familiar cover artist sustains the prior 8.6.
Evidence limits: Appears complete as encapsulated. Front and reverse are visible, but the interior has not been physically collated and staples, centre spread and page sequence cannot be independently inspected while the Soft Slab remains closed.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 7.8 / 10.
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Recorded contributions · 3
- Matthew RosenbergWritingCatalogue credit
Writing credit: Matthew Rosenberg Original catalogue credit
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Artwork credit: Carmine Di Giandomenico; Arif Prianto (colours); Francesco Francavilla (backup story); Tom Napolitano (letters) Original catalogue credit
Find other objects with this contribution → - Lee BermejoCover artworkCatalogue credit
Cover artwork credit: Lee Bermejo Original catalogue credit
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