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JOKER: LAST LAUGH #4
Cover Date: December 2001
Cover Price: $2.95
Publication Date: 2001-10-24
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Scott McDaniel (signed)
Inks: Klaus Janson (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty |
| Art | Andy Kuhn |
| Lettering | Willie Schubert |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Color separations | Digital Chameleon |
| Editing | Matt Idelson |
Feature Character(s):
Guest Star(s):
- Batman
- Black Canary II (last in Birds of Prey #36)
- Harley Quinn
- Lady Blackhawk (last in Green Lantern 80-Page Giant #2/4; next in Birds of Prey #75/2)
- Militia (last in Birds of Prey #35; next in Batman and the Outsiders Vol. 2 #4)
Supporting Character(s):
- Dina Bell
- General Crisp
- Kirk Langstrom
- Lex Luthor
- Shilo Norman
Villain(s):
- Apeface (last in Nightwing Vol. 2 #62)
- Barrage (in between Superman Vol. 2 #147 and #188)
- Black Mass (in between issues #2 and #6)
- Bolt (last in Joker: Last Laugh Secret Files #1)
- Captain Nazi (last in Birds of Prey #36; next in JLA #59)
- Cerberus II (last in Superman: The Man of Steel #13; last appearance)
- Copperhead (last in Birds of Prey #36; next in Robin Vol. 2 #95)
- Deadline (last in Young Justice #24; next in Flash Vol. 2 #179)
- Deadshot (last in Batman Vol. 1 #592; next in Flash Vol. 2 #179)
- Doctor Light III (last in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #175; next in JLA #59)
- Floro (next in Outsiders Vol. 3 #6)
- Frag II
- Hellgrammite (last in Birds of Prey #36; next in Robin Vol. 2 #95)
- Joe Gardner (last in Birds of Prey #36)
- Kilg%re (last in Justice League America #111; next in Manhunter Vol. 3 #22)
- Killer Croc
- King Shark (last in issue #2)
- Matter Master II
- Meathead (last in Nightwing Vol. 2 #62; last appearance)
- Merlyn (last in Young Justice #25; next in Flash Vol. 2 #179)
- Mister 104 (last in issue #2; next in Superman Vol. 2 #189)
- Mister Mind (last in Birds of Prey #36)
- Multi-Man (last in issue #2)
- Ocean Master (last in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #175; next in JLA #68)
- Phobia
- Rancor
- Scarface
- Doctor Sivana (last in Nightwing Vol. 2 #62)
- Stormfront (first appearance)
- Terra-Man (last in Underworld Unleashed #1; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #130)
- Ventriloquist
- Warjack
- White Dragon (last in Hawkworld Vol. 2 #29; next in Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #2)
Other Character(s):
- Doctor Clyde
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- Story continued from previous issue; continues next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- Batman: The Joker's Last Laugh ([July] 2008)
Synopsis: - Dina Bell and Shilo Norman are trapped inside a singularity along with the Slabside penitentiary and some of its inmates. Meanwhile, with the help of Stormfront and Mr. 104, the Joker goes about brewing up crazy rain, which will spread the Joker influence far and wide.
- As Earth's heroes contain the maddened villains, they discover that the Joker serum is killing them, and they must find an effective antidote, and a means of delivering it, fast. Harley Quinn is reluctantly working with Kirk Langstrom on this. The military forces of the United States are also doing their best to bring in the meta-human criminals, ably assisted (though Luthor will not want to admit this) by various costumed adventurers. As the Joker prepares for an assault on the President, Black Canary discovers from the doctor that diagnosed the Joker that the villain is not suffering from a tumor at all. The doctor had wrongly thought that the possibility of death would calm the Joker down.
- Inside the Slab, Shilo and Dina hook up with an unlikely ally in the form of Mister Mind and set out to find Black Mass to reverse the singularity. However, when they are once more pursued by the maneaters, Dina accidentally shoots Black Mass in the forehead. And the Joker's forces find their way to Arkham Asylum, where the criminals are already mad enough...