Did you know the Joker once built his own utility belt filled with crap?

As far as superhero schticks go , Batman ’s laid call to the all - purpose utility smash . It ’s been his gimmick throughout the decade , even though other comic book character have attempt to replicate the Caped Crusader ’s ever - prepared art . ( See : the pouch - drunk1990s . I swore I run into Cable root for a tub of hummus out of his second joint pocket once . )

But half a century ago , The Joker attempt to improve upon the Dark Knight ’s public utility company bash with his own , refuse - filled version . In 1952 ’s Batman # 73 , the Clown Prince of Crime unveiled his vicious utility belt . And — because this was a menstruum in comicswhen it was criminally acceptable to squirt glue into tiddler ’s sassing — The Joker mostly used gadgets that would make Adam West queasy with disbelief .

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Our dangerous undertaking begins with The Joker rankled that he was disqualified from the Gotham MOMA ’s Comedian Hall of Fame . permit ’s put aside every other improbable facial expression of Batman comics ( which is everything , except perhaps Alfred ’s moustache ) and relish that Gotham City has a museum wing devoted to abstract paintings of Laurel and Hardy .

It ’s reasons like these why Gotham does n’t have a population of 12 . Batman quickly shows up and vexes The Joker with smoke pellets , throwing the goofball into an impotent rage …

… until The Joker takes five and build up his own roast - off utility whack . mention that there ’s nothing murderous — remember this was an earned run average when The Joker mostly just held up bingo parlors and pay his henchmen in destitute shampoo samples .

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If this particular Joker starred in Tim Burton ’s Batman , nobody would pall in that artwork verandah scene . No , The Joker would just waltz around in peacefully blasting Prince ’s “ Partyman ” until Commissioner Gordon cited him for a stochasticity infringement . Anyway , my pet part of the utility program belt is n’t the peanut - can fake Snake …

… .or the Mexican jumping beans …

… or even the ROBIN SUCKS flags ( which he tricks Batman into using ) …

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… but the phellem . Yes , Joker cling on to a individual cork , vaunt about its Batman - defeating properties . I ’ve rearrange two of these panels next to each other , so it looks like The Joker has been keeping his henchman captive for day , monologuing about the same damn cork .

Batman figures out that the Joker ’s bobber is used to hold back stupefying gun , until he is thwarted by his only impuissance : drunk debutantes .

This caper ends with Batman groom The Joker up as a flower . Hey , this was pre - Miranda Rights . you could read “ The Joker ’s Utility Belt ” atGrantbridge Street ( inter-group communication NSFW ) . And as a bonus , here are some other public utility belts …

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