LOOK: Benes' "Batman" #1 Variant Cover Pits the Dark Knight against the Joker

[CBR News]

In Ed Benes' variant cover for "Batman" #1, the Dark Knight holds the Joker by the throat against the Gotham city skyline.


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[adrikito]

This joker is the worst of the 3, sure.. he will be the only one of the 3 to go ahead, after the next saga batman-jokers

[Fuzzy Barbarian]

If you squint hard enough, you can see Benes trying to draw Batgirl's ass.

I kid, I love Benes most of the time. But I'm kinda over the Joker for a while. Snyder used him really well, but this 3-joker bs... I can't see it being anything other than Johns trying to get out of the corner he wrote himself into, and poor Tom King will have to make do

[samantha1990]

If you squint hard enough, you can see Benes trying to draw Batgirl's ass.

I kid, I love Benes most of the time. But I'm kinda over the Joker for a while. Snyder used him really well, but this 3-joker bs... I can't see it being anything other than Johns trying to get out of the corner he wrote himself into, and poor Tom King will have to make do

I know you were just kidding, but I personally love it when Benes draws an ass. The man knows how to draw a damn fine ass.

[ultimate jezebel]

I'm getting a copy

[Aioros22]

That`s...generic.

This comment therein does not qualify as an attack on the ability of the artist and the rest of the creatice staff behind the conception of the cover, whatsoever. It`s just simply generic for my taste.

[MajorHoy]

That`s...generic.

This comment therein does not qualify as an attack on the ability of the artist and the rest of the creatice staff behind the conception of the cover, whatsoever. It`s just simply generic for my taste.

Batman does look bored, and Joker doesn't really look like he's . . . interested.

= yawn! =

[Batman#22]

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but Remember how there was one Joker who got his face cut off, got it back, and plagued Batman in Death of a Family? Then "Joker" came back with his face magically attached, which gave us no explanation on how he got it back. I think the Jokers were switched out at that time. Maybe The Joker theory about Pre-Crisis, Post Crisis, and New 52 aren't as true as we thought.

[Dipper]

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but Remember how there was one Joker who got his face cut off, got it back, and plagued Batman in Death of a Family? Then "Joker" came back with his face magically attached, which gave us no explanation on how he got it back. I think the Jokers were switched out at that time. Maybe The Joker theory about Pre-Crisis, Post Crisis, and New 52 aren't as true as we thought.

I thought he got it back via the Lazarus Pit after Batman knocked him off the cliff?

What I want to know, however, is how he got his face back from Joker's Daughter. If I recall, she had the face actually sewn onto her skin.