Today's story straddles the line between horror comic and hero comic in a way that only a Batman book could. I've always thought that The Joker's maniacal personality was just perfect for a horror host. I mean, a crazed clown with horrifically comical weapons like acid squirting flowers and 1,000 volt joy buzzers who can spout puns as good as the GhouLunatics and the Creepy family combined? He was meant for such a job.
DC must have heard my swears because in 2009 they created a series of comics called Joker's Asylum in which old Mr. J would act as psychotic story teller for each issue. The fact that Batman's rogues gallery is filled with nothing but schizos, monsters, and malcontents meant that The Joker had an almost unlimited source for creepy characters to fill his tales, which range from crime stories, to horror stories, to demented love stories like the one we're looking at today. It features one of the bat's most feral foes, Killer Croc, and has the apt, if unoriginal title of...
Beauty And The Beast.
