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Comics - Ongoing - Batman - Issue #321

BATMAN #321
COVER TAGLINE: None
TITLE: Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker!
STORY ARC: None

RELEASE DATE: January, 1980
COVER DATE: March, 1980

WRITER: Len Wein
ARTIST: Walter Simonson
INKER: Dick Giordano
COLORS: Glynis Wein
LETTERS: Ben Oda
EDITORS: Paul Levitz
COVER: José Luis García-López

PRICE: $.40 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Catwoman (Selina Kyle); Lucius Fox; Commissioner James Gordon; Joker; Alfred Pennyworth; Robin (Dick Grayson)

INTERIOR ART:

PLOT:
Gordon receives a special invitation to the Joker's birthday party delivered to his office at the GCPD headquarters. Suddenly his officers begin bursting out in uncontrollable fits of laughter as the Joker walks through the door. Batman arrives on the scene just in time to watch as Joker escapes with Gordon held hostage in his ridiculous Joker-mobile.

But Gordon isn't the only Bat-Family member to be kidnapped. Both Robin and Alfred (whom Joker blames for foiling one of his previous plots) are taken hostage and stashed alongside Gordon in his secret Ha-Hacienda. The Joker decides he wants to celebrate his birthday with a public execution so he tricks the masses of Gotham City into flocking to his "Harlequin Bakery" with promises of free samples. Joker releases paralyzing gas onto the crowd as he arrives with his hostages tied to rocket-candles adorning a giant Joker-ized birthday cake.

Batman arrives and tricks Joker into thinking he had given himself and allows himself to be launched into the air via the rocket. Once he's safely out of the range of Joker's goons he uses his Bat-arang to free the hostages. Back on the ground, the Joker leads Batman into a watery pursuit as he jumps aboard a nearby motorboat. Joker is so distracted by his efforts to kill Batman that he doesn't pay attention to where the boat is headed. The boat explodes in a fiery blast and the Joker is presumed dead.

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