Batman Adventures: Mad Love # 1 - Mad Love
is an issue published by DC that was released on 1 / / 1994Plot Summary
In this fantastic issue created for the animated series the reader finds out for the first time Harley Quinn's disturbing transformation from Dr. Harleen Quinzel the clinical psychiatrist to crazy clown girl.
This is the turning point in Harley's life. She falls madly in love for a psychopathic clown and lives a life that could have come straight from an episode of loony tunes.
Harley also greets the Joker with a nice Batty surprise, but he's not too thrilled. He doesn't like to think of Harley being better then him at the game then him.
The relationship between the Clown Prince and the Harlequin is really nicely illustrated in this amazing comic book.
This story was so great it even went on to be part of the animated series, with only minor changes.
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First of all, I think that the comic book has better graphics than the cartoon. This is the only bad thing of Mad Love, to me. Mad Love contains the most famous Joker's lines, like 'If you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!'. Well, young Doc. Harleen Quinzel tries to understand the twisted mind of the Joker. But he's crazy, not stupid. So, he invents his past (Joker actually doesn't really remember how he turned into a white grinning guy)and tells Harleen a sad story: his father used to beat him up, and there was only one time he ever saw his dad happy; when he took him to the circus. The kid tried to make his father laugh doing some clownish gags, but all he received was a broken nose. Harley begins to see him as a kind of misunderstood angel, 'a lost, injured child trying to make the world laugh at his antics'. Then,the Joker escapes from Arkham, only for a little, because Batman immediatley captures him. When Harleen sees his angel barely conscient, bleeding before her eyes, she runs to take the Joker in her arms. And then, a snap in her mind. She buys a jester costume and prepares herself. In a few hours, Harley Quinn is ready to help her Puddin'. But after the breakout, the Joker is violent and unkind to her. Harley desperately tries to kill Batman to 'prove Mistah J she can do one of his plans'. But when he Puddin' discovers what she was doing, he sets Batman free and push her out of the window. Only the Joker has the honor of killing the Bat. Yes, out of the window. Come on, I don't have to tell you the end, Batman wins, but Mr. J pushed his Harley OUT OF A WINDOW. He's the Joker after all. I think Mad Love is the more explicit example of how love makes you do CRAZY things, like loving the Joker, or still loving him after he broke every possible bone in your body.
-Face it Harl, this stinks. Yer a certified nutso wanted in twelve states and hopelessly in love with a psychopathic clown!

















