Pre-crisis Earth-2: Did the Joker outlive Batman?

[Revtim]

It’s my understanding that the pre-crisis Earth-2 Batman died. Was the corresponding Joker still alive? Did Earth-2 Joker die before being retconned out of existence by the Crisis On Infinite Earths?

[Czarcasm]

According to DC’s Wiki…they don’t know. Either he died of old age in prison, or blinked out of existence with the rest of the planet.

[cmkeller]

He definitely outlived Batman. In The Brave and the Bold # 200, the story is an “old foe” (newly invented for that very issue) of the Earth-2 Batman wakes up from a decades-long coma to discover that Batman died at the hands of another, and one of the people he speaks to is an aged Earth-2 Joker. (After leaving the hospital, he mentally takes over the body of his Earth-1 counterpart, who is an upstanding citizen, in order to get his revenge-by-proxy on Earth-1 Batman.)

I guess the editors of DC’s wiki overlooked that scene.

[Czarcasm]

@cmkeller

He definitely outlived Batman. In The Brave and the Bold # 200, the story is an “old foe” (newly invented for that very issue) of the Earth-2 Batman wakes up from a decades-long coma to discover that Batman died at the hands of another, and one of the people he speaks to is an aged Earth-2 Joker. (After leaving the hospital, he mentally takes over the body of his Earth-1 counterpart, who is an upstanding citizen, in order to get his revenge-by-proxy on Earth-1 Batman.)

I guess the editors of DC’s wiki overlooked that scene.

I guess I was unclear. When I said they didn’t know, it was only about when the Earth-2 Joker died, not whether he died before or after Earth-2 Batman. They definitely have him dying long after Bat-2.

[Bryan_Ekers]

The DC Wikia page (which I assume is edited by obsessed nerds even more extreme than the ones here) says the Earth-2 Joker’s was never depicted or referenced, leaving the assumption that he disappeared along with Earth-2 during the Crisis.

It does not, however, mention his cameo in Brave and Bold #200, and I’m thinking about adding it.

[Lumpy]

@cmkeller

He definitely outlived Batman. In The Brave and the Bold # 200, the story is an “old foe” (newly invented for that very issue) of the Earth-2 Batman wakes up from a decades-long coma to discover that Batman died at the hands of another, and one of the people he speaks to is an aged Earth-2 Joker. (After leaving the hospital, he mentally takes over the body of his Earth-1 counterpart, who is an upstanding citizen, in order to get his revenge-by-proxy on Earth-1 Batman.)

I guess the editors of DC’s wiki overlooked that scene.

Nicholas Lucien, a.k.a. “Brimstone”

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Bryan_Ekers

The DC Wikia page (which I assume is edited by obsessed nerds even more extreme than the ones here) says the Earth-2 Joker’s was never depicted or referenced, leaving the assumption that he disappeared along with Earth-2 during the Crisis.

It does not, however, mention his cameo in Brave and Bold #200, and I’m thinking about adding it.

His death, his death was never depicted or referenced. Somebody’s been stealing my nouns.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

Gosh, Batman! What kind of fiend would steal parts of speech?
That’s . . . a good question, old chum; I fear it can mean only . . . one . . . thing.

[Revtim]

@cmkeller

He definitely outlived Batman. In The Brave and the Bold # 200, the story is an “old foe” (newly invented for that very issue) of the Earth-2 Batman wakes up from a decades-long coma to discover that Batman died at the hands of another, and one of the people he speaks to is an aged Earth-2 Joker. (After leaving the hospital, he mentally takes over the body of his Earth-1 counterpart, who is an upstanding citizen, in order to get his revenge-by-proxy on Earth-1 Batman.)

I guess the editors of DC’s wiki overlooked that scene.

Thanks! A definitive answer, which I wasn’t sure was possible.