Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents: Little-Known Batman Facts Week!
The Joker never had a real name until the
1989 movie starring Jack Nicholson
So, the big box office news today is that Ice Age 4 topped the moviegoers' list for the weekend, pulling down a respectable 46 million dollars. The film's day in the sun will be short-lived, as "The Dark Knight Rises" descends upon theaters Friday, and will decimate other movies' paltry earnings for the next month or so.
To celebrate, Jeremy Is In The Office will be edutaining you all week with some little-known facts about Batman.
In a rare and special gift, this will be a completely unprecedented 6-Day Theme Week, culminating monday in a full review of "The Dark Knight Rises" from Jeremy Is In The Theatre, because Jeremy is stupid enough to go see the film on opening night. It likely won't be a very in-depth review, as Jeremy will spend the entire three hours gawking at Anne Hathaway, but we'll take whatever we can get.
Today's interesting fact about Batman actually centers around one of the greatest villains in the history of villainy, The Joker. Having made his first appearance in comics in 1940, and being a mainstay in nearly every incarnation of Batman media ever since, The Joker never had a real name until 1989. In fact, there was never any official back story for the character until a comic entitled "Batman: The Killing Joke" was released in 1988. The author of that comic was Alan Moore, who also created "Watchmen." Even in the comic, no real name was given to the character who fell in a vat of acid and became The Joker, but Tim Burton gave him one.
Named after the actor who originally portrayed Bruce Wayne's quintessential butler, Alfred Pennyworth, The Joker was given the name "Jack Napier" in the film. In this particular movie, he was also credited with killing Bruce Wayne's parents, a deed canonically attributed to a gangster named Joe Chill, so there certainly is some discontinuity here, but that's beside the point.
In a rare and special gift, this will be a completely unprecedented 6-Day Theme Week, culminating monday in a full review of "The Dark Knight Rises" from Jeremy Is In The Theatre, because Jeremy is stupid enough to go see the film on opening night. It likely won't be a very in-depth review, as Jeremy will spend the entire three hours gawking at Anne Hathaway, but we'll take whatever we can get.
Today's interesting fact about Batman actually centers around one of the greatest villains in the history of villainy, The Joker. Having made his first appearance in comics in 1940, and being a mainstay in nearly every incarnation of Batman media ever since, The Joker never had a real name until 1989. In fact, there was never any official back story for the character until a comic entitled "Batman: The Killing Joke" was released in 1988. The author of that comic was Alan Moore, who also created "Watchmen." Even in the comic, no real name was given to the character who fell in a vat of acid and became The Joker, but Tim Burton gave him one.
Named after the actor who originally portrayed Bruce Wayne's quintessential butler, Alfred Pennyworth, The Joker was given the name "Jack Napier" in the film. In this particular movie, he was also credited with killing Bruce Wayne's parents, a deed canonically attributed to a gangster named Joe Chill, so there certainly is some discontinuity here, but that's beside the point.
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