Mad Love (comic)

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The Batman Adventures: Mad Love


The cover to Mad Love. Book by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm.
Publisher DC Comics
Schedule One shot
Format Graphic novel
Publication dates February 1994
Number of issues 1
Main character(s) Harley Quinn
Creative team
Writer(s) Paul Dini, Bruce Timm
Artist(s) Bruce Timm
Colorist(s) Bruce Timm, Rick Taylor
Creator(s) Paul Dini, Bruce Timm

Mad Love was a single-issue graphic novel written by Paul Dini, writer on Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond, and Bruce Timm, executive producer on The New Batman/Superman Adventures and the co-creator of Batman: The Animated Series. It was set in the continuity of The Batman Animated Series. It won an Eisner Award for "Best Single Story" in 1994.[1] It was later adapted (with minor alterations for pacing) as an episode of the animated series The New Batman Adventures

Contents

The story revolves around the Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn. She was once psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel, but fell head over heels in love with the maniacal Joker after spending just 15 minutes inside Arkham Asylum. She develops an obsession with him, and turns to crime to win his love.

Quinn decides that the only way to make the Joker love her is to kill the Batman, which she attempts to do by feeding him to a school of pirahnas. She nearly succeeds — getting closer, in fact, than Joker ever did — but Batman distracts her by manipulating her to believe that her "puddin"'s tales about his unhappy childhood were lies, and escapes. The Joker, meanwhile, goes into a jealous rage and nearly kills Quinn, but Batman saves her. He then confronts the Joker, taunting him, "I have to admit she came a lot closer [to killing me] than you ever did... puddin'." Joker attacks him, but after a vicious fight, he sends Joker plunging to his (apparent) death.

Once again in Arkham, Quinn realizes that the Joker had merely been using her, and renounces him forever — until she receives a "get well" bouquet of flowers from him, suggesting he survived his fall, and promptly falls in love again.

The episode, also titled "Mad Love", originally aired on January 16, 1999 a part of The New Batman Adventures. The script was written by Paul Dini, and the episode was directed by Butch Lukic.

  1. ^ Comic Book Awards Almanac

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