Batman The Killing Joke - All You Ever Wanted to Know 1 1

[aszumilo]

Here are all the covers that I have been able to track down, Direct, Newsstand, Book of the Month Club, and Foreign versions.

 

Direct Editions

1^st Print – Green Title                               2^nd Print – Pink Title                           3^rd Print – Yellow Title                                       

            

4^th Print – Orange Title                           5^th Print – Dark Blue Title                  6^th Print – Dark Orange Title

          

 

7^th Print – Yellow Title                              8^th Print – Lt. Blue Title                         9^th Print – Red Title

                                                                UPC - 7 61941 20212 00118                UPC - 7 61941 20212 00119

                                                               1^st issue with UPC Barcode                    9th and 10th print have same UPC

             

 

10^th Print – Yellow Title                          11^th Print – Yellow Title                        12^th print – Yellow Title 

UPC - 7 61941 20212 00119                  UPC - 7 61941 20212 00121              UPC - 7 61941 20212 00122

ISBN Number on Lower Left Corner        ISBN Number on Lower Left Corner

             

 

13^th Print – Yellow Title                         14^th Print – Green Title / New DC Logo    Direct Edition – Same as 14^th Print

UPC - 7 61941 20212 00124                UPC - 7 61941 20212 00125                   UPC - 7 61941 20212 00125

                                                                                                                             CGC now recognizes this as the 14^th Print

             

 

Newsstand Editions – CGC Does not recognize these as Newsstands currently

6^th Print Newsstand– Orange Title - Only issue with UPC on Front Cover - CGC now notates this as a newsstand edition, but, it is not going to get its own slot in the registry.

UPC -  0 73361 0 73361 64995 9 95 6499

 

11^th Print Newsstand – Yellow Title – UPC - 9 780930 289454 50495

     

 

13^th Print Newsstand – Yellow Title – UPC - 9 780930 289454 50595

 

4^th Print – Orange Title - Book of the Month Club Edition – No price or Suggested for Mature Readers on back Cover

 BOMC shown in the Indicia on inside front cover

 

There is another 4th print that appears similar to the BOMC edition.  It, like the BOMC edition has no price or mature reader warning on the back.  It does not have the BOMC text on the inside cover.  There is no idea of where this book came from, so, if anyone has any ideas, let me know.

           

 

Foreign Editions

 

Arabic (Egypt)                                                                                                                                                   

              

 

  Argentina   

 

 

Brazil (2 versions)

     

 

Bulgaria (Only found pics of 2 Hardcover)

Writing at top of cover different between the two covers

     

 

China (Only found pics of 2 Hardcover)

     

 

Croatia (2 different versions)

         

 

Czech

 

Czechia (Hardcover)

 

Denmark (1 Paperback)              Denmark (1 Hardcover)

    

 

 Finland

 

France (4 paperback) (There are also 3 Hardcover – not pictured)

   

    

 

Georgia

 

Germany (4 Paperback) (At least 1 Hardcover – not pictured)

             

    

 

Greece – (Think this one is a Hardcover due to the Tim Burton comments at upper left corner)

 

Hungary                                        Italy – Orange Title                       Italy – Green Title

            

 

Japan                                             Korea (1 Hardcover)

    

 

Mexico

          

                                                                                                                            El Quinto Mundo Convention Edition

     

La Mole Convention Edition

 

Netherlands

 

Norway

     

 

Peru                                               Poland (1 Paperback)                  Poland (1 Hardcover)      

          

 

Portugal                                           Romania (1 Hardcover)              Russia (1 Hardcover)

           

 

Serbia (2 Paperback)                        Serbia (1 Hardcover)

         

 

Slovakia (1 Hardcover)              Sweden                                            Turkey

            

 

Spain (6 different editions)

        

                                                                                                                                 This one is 172 pages.

                

     Spain - Bundled with DVD of the comic movie

     

 

UK (4 different printings) (Heard rumor of a printing that says 4^th Printing in indicia, haven’t seen it)

1^st Print – Green Title - £1.95       2^nd Print – Pink Title - £1.95          3^rd Print – Orange Title - £2.25

             

4^th Print – Yellow Title - £2.50

 

Ukraine (1 Hardcover)

 

Other Foreign Editions with no pictures of the covers at this time.

Belgium

Canada Fan Expo Show

Chile

 

Other helpful Information due to inaccurate descriptions on E-Bay (This applies mainly to US and UK editions)

1.  First print is green and only green.  If it is not green it cannot be a 1st Printing.  There is no Newsstand edition of the 1st print.

2.  Printings that have UPC stickers placed on them are not Newsstand Editions.  As of now, only 6th, 11th, and 13th printings are they only ones with verified Newsstand Editions.

3.  There is no Brian Bolland Variant.  He was the artist, and only artist, to draw the covers on the 1st thru 14th printings.

4. Hardcovers will not be graded by CGC, so, any listing saying to "CGC IT" is WRONG.

5.  There are no "color" variants.  Ink levels dropped during printing, so, some covers are lighter than others.

6.   2nd Printing is Pink, not Orange.

7.  6th Printing is Dark Orange, not Red.

8.  3rd, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th prints are all Yellow.  You can tell the differences by looking for certain things

  A. 3rd Print is the only one that costs $3.50 and does not have the Mature Reader warning on the back cover.  No UPC
  B.  7th print cover price is also $3.50, but, has the Mature Reader warning on the back cover.  No UPC
  C. 10th and 11th printings have the ISBN number on the lower left front corner.  Both have cover price of $4.95
  D.  10th print has the same UPC code as the 9th print (7 61941 20212 00119)
  E.  11th print UPC is 7 61941 20212 00121
  F.  12th and 13th print cover price is $5.95
  G.  12th print UPC code is 7 61941 20212 00122.  13th print UPC code is 7 61941 20212 00124

9.  Unless someone has print numbers, no, one really knows which is the rarest print.  Just because a listing says so, does not make it true.
     Many listings for the 9th print claim it is the rarest.  Again, no one knows if this is true right now.

10.  CGC grades this book hard.  Pay close attention for scratches and finger prints on the back cover.  This will drop the grade regardless of what the front looks like.

 

I hope this helps everyone that is shopping for these books.  Good Luck!

 

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by aszumilo

[HouseofComics.Com]

Very, very cool

[JTLarsen]

Amazing. Thank you.

[Parabellum]

Awesome breakdown!  Thank you.

[aszumilo]

Added some Useful information to the original post.

[Brandon Shepherd]

Nice!

[jdandns]

Incredible! 

I wonder why they used the recent Ryan Sook drawn homage variant featuring Harley Quinn for one of the Mexican editions, though.

Edited May 8, 2023 by jdandns

[aszumilo]

On 5/8/2023 at 7:23 AM, jdandns said:

Incredible! 

I wonder why they used the recent Ryan Sook drawn homage variant featuring Harley Quinn for one of the Mexican editions, though.

I would imagine that it was because that was the 25th anniversary of Harley Quinn.  Still seems odd since she has nothing to do with the story.

[aszumilo]

Added El Quinto Mundo and La Mole convention editions

[aszumilo]

Added pics of the mystery 4th printing

[Bronty]

good lord

[chrisco37]

Fantastic!  Great work!  

[Genisius LeMat II]

Hey Man,
I can help you update the 1st post as I just got the1st through 14 prints.

Just message or email me.

Danke

'Sin City' Spence?:>}

[aszumilo]

On 12/29/2023 at 3:12 PM, Genisius LeMat II said:

Hey Man,
I can help you update the 1st post as I just got the1st through 14 prints.

Just message or email me.

Danke

'Sin City' Spence?:>}

1st thru 14th printings are already in the 1st post.  Not sure what there would be to update and not sure if you even would be allowed to do it, even if I wanted you to.

If you have any information, send me a message and I will be happy to review/include it (with credit due)

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by aszumilo

[MattTheDuck]

This is great work and appreciated, but frankly I didn't find that joke all that funny.

[chrisco37]

On 12/30/2023 at 5:31 PM, MattTheDuck said:

This is great work and appreciated, but frankly I didn't find that joke all that funny.

You would have...if you were Batman.  

[Stronguy]

On 5/6/2023 at 11:41 PM, aszumilo said:

There is another 4th print that appears similar to the BOMC edition.  It, like the BOMC edition has no price or mature reader warning on the back.  It does not have the BOMC text on the inside cover.  There is no idea of where this book came from, so, if anyone has any ideas, let me know.

           

This is my book and as far as I know, it's the only one ever found.  I bought it off eBay from a guy in Canada thinking it was a BOMC edition.

[aszumilo]

On 1/5/2024 at 11:11 AM, Stronguy said:

This is my book and as far as I know, it's the only one ever found.  I bought it off eBay from a guy in Canada thinking it was a BOMC edition.

Actually, those pictures are of my book.  I found one as well.  Mine came from an E-Bay seller in Burbank, Ca.

We now know of 4 copies of this book.  Yours, mine, and @TJ Radford who has 2 copies.

 

Edited January 8 by aszumilo

[Jesse-Lee]

This is insane - if I could afford it, I would buy it in a heartbeat:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315119908107

 

Edited February 4 by Jesse-Lee

[Pitboss]