The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus
Part of the DC Omnibus guide — every release, in reading order
The Joker's greatest tales from the 1970s are collected in one massive hardcover featuring appearances by Batman, Robin, Catwoman and many more!
He has been the thorn in the side of the Caped Crusader for years, always there to confound Batman and his allies before their own genius and heroics halt whatever crazy scheme has hatched from his maniacal mind. As the swinging '60s moved into the troubled '70s, so, too, did the Joker shift into something new. The Bronze Age Joker was a step away from Cesar Romero's comical portrayal in the Batman TV series toward the diabolical maniac that would eventually plaque the Batman of the modern era. The Clown Prince of Crime had come into his own, both in his own comic book series and in his psyche, or lack thereof...
2 printings · 2 variants · 2019–2026
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Printings
Printing #1$99.99
August 14, 2019
Standard Cover — José Luis García-López & Trish Mulvihill
ISBN: 978-1401293406
Printing #2$125.00
February 24, 2026
Standard Cover — José Luis García-López & Trish Mulvihill
ISBN: 978-1799507406
Also collected in
28% of this book is also in other books we catalog.
Batman by Doug Moench Omnibus Vol. 18% of this bookBatman (1940) #365–366 · Detective Comics (1937) #532
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 27% of this bookThe Brave and the Bold (1955) #111, 118, 129–130, 1414 more books share a few stories
Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus · 3% of this book
The Phantom Stranger Omnibus · 3% of this book
Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 · 3% of this book
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 3 · 2% of this book
Creators
click a creator to highlightWriterDenny O'Neil +14
PencilerIrv Novick +31
InkerTex Blaisdell +30
ColoristAdrienne Roy +6
LettererBen Oda +9
Percentages may exceed 100% when multiple creators share a role on the same issue.
Issues (39)
Order from GCD1. #77 Justice League of America (1960)23pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Our Amazing Universe [Cartoon]"1pp
2. #251 Batman (1940)24pp
🖼️Cover — Neal Adams · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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Not included — 1 story
"Letters to the Batman [Letters]"1pp
3. #111 The Brave and the Bold (1955)21pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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"The Brave and the Bold Mailbag [Letters]"1pp
4. #260 Batman (1940)21pp
🖼️Cover — Nick Cardy · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 10 stories
"The Grade A Crimes!"13pp
"The Perfect Crime-- Slightly Imperfect!"12pp
"The Case Without a Crime!"12pp
"Speedy Justice"1pp
"The Pearl of Peril!"4pp
"The Riddler's Prison-Puzzle Problem!"15pp
"Letters to the Batman [Letters]"2pp
"The Batman Whirly-Word Game [Activity]"1pp
"Batman Trivia Quiz [Activity]"1pp
"Strange Old Laws [Cartoon]"1pp
5. #118 The Brave and the Bold (1955)19pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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Not included — 1 story
"The Brave and the Bold Mailbag [Letters]"1pp
6. #1 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Dick Giordano · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"The Wildest Card"1pp
7. #2 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"The Wildest Card, Part 2"1pp
8. #3 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Dick Giordano · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 4 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
9. #4 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
10. #5 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
11. #6 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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📋Asst. Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
"Justice for All Includes Children! [PSA]"1pp
12. #7 The Joker (1975)19pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
13. #8 The Joker (1975)18pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
"Justice for All Includes Children, 5 [PSA]"1pp
14. #9 The Joker (1975)18pp
🖼️Cover — Ernie Chan · 1pp
🖌️Artist
📋Editorial — 3 credits
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📋Asst. Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"The Joker's Ha-Hacienda [Letters]"1pp
"Volume 76 Issue 7 - Week of June 14, 1976. [Column]"1pp
15. #129 The Brave and the Bold (1955)2pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 2 credits
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Not included — 5 stories
"Part 1 - Curse of the Black Bird"5pp
"Part 2 - Flight 311 is Skyjacked"5pp
"Part 3 - The Solar Trap"6pp
"The Brave and the Bold Mailbag [Letters]"1pp
"Riddler on the Rampage! [Column]"1pp
16. #130 The Brave and the Bold (1955)2pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 2 credits
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Not included — 5 stories
"Part 1 - Ambushed by the Ghastly Grimacer"4pp
"Part 2 - Green Arrow's Treachery"6pp
"Part 3 - To Whom the Last Laugh?"6pp
"The Brave and the Bold Mailbag [Letters]"1pp
"Justice for All Includes Children 7 [PSA]"1pp
17. #286 Batman (1940)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
🖌️Artist
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Letters to the Batman [Letters]"1pp
"Volume 77 Issue 2 - Week of January 10, 1977 [Column]"1pp
18. #291 Batman (1940)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
🖌️Artist
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Letters to the Batman [Letters]"1pp
"Swamp Thing from the Beginning [Column]"1pp
19. #292 Batman (1940)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Letters to the Batman [Letters]"1pp
"Volume 77 Issue 27 - Week of July 4, 1977 [Column]"1pp
20. #293 Batman (1940)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
🖌️Artist
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Bat-Signals [Letters]"1pp
"The Greatest Superman Story Ever Told [Column]"1pp
21. #294 Batman (1940)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
🖌️Artist
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Bat-Signals [Letters]"1pp
"Volume 77 Issue 36 - Week of September 5, 1977 [Column]"1pp
22. #475 Detective Comics (1937)18pp
🖼️Cover — Marshall Rogers · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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"Batman's Hot-Line [Letters]"2pp
23. #476 Detective Comics (1937)18pp
🖼️Cover — Marshall Rogers · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Batman's Hot-Line [Letters]"1pp
"A Word About the Fight of the Century [Column]"1pp
24. #141 The Brave and the Bold (1955)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🎨Colorist
📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"The Brave and the Bold Mailbag [Letters]"1pp
"Volume 78 Issue 7 - Week of February 13, 1978 [Column]"1pp
25. #321 Batman (1940)19pp
🖼️Cover — José Luis García-López · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🎨Colorist
📋Editorial — 2 credits
📋Editor,
Not included — 4 stories
"Bat-Signals [Letters]"1pp
"Man-Bat"1pp
"Volume 79 Issue 49 - Week of December 3, 1979 [Column]"1pp
"The Answer Man [Column]"1pp
26. #504 Detective Comics (1937)17pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Starlin · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 2 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"A Day in the Life of a Cop"9pp
"Batcave [Letters]"1pp
27. #280 Wonder Woman (1942)9pp
🖼️Cover — Ross Andru · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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Not included — 2 stories
"In the Claws of Demons!"17pp
"Wonder Words [Letters]"1pp
28. #281 Wonder Woman (1942)9pp
🖼️Cover — Ross Andru · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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Not included — 2 stories
"The Castle Outside Time!"17pp
"Wonder Words [Letters]"1pp
29. #282 Wonder Woman (1942)9pp
🖼️Cover — Rich Buckler · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 2 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Return and Redemption"17pp
"Wonder Words [Letters]"1pp
30. #283 Wonder Woman (1942)9pp
🖼️Cover — George Pérez · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 2 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Encounter"17pp
"Wonder Words [Letters]"1pp
31. #41 DC Comics Presents (1978)28pp
🖼️Cover — Ross Andru · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"A Bold New Direction for... Wonder Woman"15pp
"Pair Mail [Letters]"1pp
32. #191 The Brave and the Bold (1955)18pp
🖼️Cover — Jim Aparo · 1pp
🖌️Artist
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📋Editorial — 1 credit
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Not included — 2 stories
"Dead Man's Bluff!"6pp
"The Brave and the Bold Mailbag [Letters]"2pp
33. #353 Batman (1940)17pp
🖼️Cover — José Luis García-López · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🎨Colorist
📋Editorial — 4 credits
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📋Asst. Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"Special Masters of the Universe Preview [Illustration]"1pp
"Fate Is the Killer"14pp
"Bat-Signals [Letters]"1pp
""The Sting"-- Batman Style"8pp
34. #526 Detective Comics (1937)57pp
🖼️Cover — Don Newton · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"A Special 500th Anniversary Bonus Pin-Up from the Man Who Started It All -- Bob Kane [Illustration]"1pp
35. #365 Batman (1940)24pp
🖼️Cover — Ed Hannigan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 2 credits
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📋Asst. Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"Bat-Signals [Letters]"1pp
"Meanwhile... [Column]"1pp
36. #532 Detective Comics (1937)17pp
🖼️Cover — Gene Colan · 1pp
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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📋Asst. Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"Detective Comments [Letters]"2pp
"Survival of the Fittest III: Soft Targets!"7pp
"Meanwhile... [Column]"1pp
37. #366 Batman (1940)24pp
🖼️Cover — Walter Simonson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 1 story
"Meanwhile... [Column]"1pp
38. #72 DC Comics Presents (1978)24pp
🖼️Cover — Alex Saviuk · 1pp
✏️Penciler
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📋Editorial — 3 credits
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Not included — 2 stories
"Pair Mail [Letters]"2pp
"Meanwhile... [Column]"1pp
39. #400 Batman (1940)61pp
🖼️Cover — Bill Sienkiewicz · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🎨Colorist
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 6 stories
"Why I Chose Batman [Foreword]"2pp
"Batman [Illustration]"1pp
"Batman Has Gone to Hell [Illustration]"1pp
"Batman [Illustration]"1pp
"Batman [Illustration]"1pp
"Back Cover [Illustration]"1pp
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Period-appropriate paper
The lightweight, matte, old-comics-style paper DC has been printing its classic-era omnibus reprints on since 2026. DC's own solicitations call it “period appropriate paper”; collectors call it Norbrite.
What it actually is
A high-bulk, uncoated groundwood book paper — the same family of stock trade paperbacks and novels are printed on — instead of the coated gloss or matte sheet most collected editions use. The Norbrite name comes from a NORPAC paper line made from thermomechanical (groundwood) pulp: roughly 80 brightness, about 52–67 gsm, and 400–570 pages per inch. Standard coated omnibus paper runs closer to 90–100 gsm at 510–600 pages per inch.
What that means in hand
- Lighter book: the sheet weighs roughly a third less than coated stock.
- Thicker spine: it is bulkier per sheet, so the same page count needs more shelf space.
- Matte, low-glare pages with softer colour — closer to how the original newsprint comics looked.
- Groundwood paper carries lignin, so like the comics it imitates it can tone over the years, especially in sunlight.
Who likes it
Fans praise the comfortable reading weight and the period feel on vintage art. Detractors find the colours muted and the stock less premium than gloss — and it costs shelf space. Neither camp is wrong; it is a taste call, which is why you can filter by it.
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