The Joker Jury.
A Joker judge and a Joker jury: twelve grinning green-haired duplicates packed into a gallery while Batman stands trial. Batman #163, from May 1964, gives you one of the strangest and most gleeful Joker covers of the Silver Age — Moldoff staging the whole thing like a fever-dream courtroom, the real Joker banging a gavel from the bench.
Inside, Bill Finger’s scripts run the double bill the cover promises: “The Joker Jury!” and “Bat-Girl — Batwoman II!”, the latter a reminder that the pre-Crisis Bat-family was a crowded, eccentric place. It’s DC comfortably mid-decade, bright and inventive and not yet self-conscious.
This copy grades CBCS 8.5 with White pages — clean, high, and holding all the primary-color pop the cover demands. White pages on a book this age are a real asset, and the example presents a full grade nicer than most copies that surface. Housed in a CBCS holder.
CBCS 8.5 · White Pages · DC Comics, May 1964.
The Joker Jury.
A Joker judge and a Joker jury: twelve grinning green-haired duplicates packed into a gallery while Batman stands trial. Batman #163, from May 1964, gives you one of the strangest and most gleeful Joker covers of the Silver Age — Moldoff staging the whole thing like a fever-dream courtroom, the real Joker banging a gavel from the bench.
Inside, Bill Finger’s scripts run the double bill the cover promises: “The Joker Jury!” and “Bat-Girl — Batwoman II!”, the latter a reminder that the pre-Crisis Bat-family was a crowded, eccentric place. It’s DC comfortably mid-decade, bright and inventive and not yet self-conscious.
This copy grades CBCS 8.5 with White pages — clean, high, and holding all the primary-color pop the cover demands. White pages on a book this age are a real asset, and the example presents a full grade nicer than most copies that surface. Housed in a CBCS holder.
CBCS 8.5 · White Pages · DC Comics, May 1964.
