Yup, it was Detective Comics 623 that I had. I found it shortly after posting this, but thanks for the quick reply! The jester joker I now remember was from another issue I had where Batman gets a Tarot reading, so the Joker is being represented as a literal joker in a tarot deck. Anyway, I found out that it's actually not Batman going insane in these issues here, it's an in-universe Gotham comic writer's take on what he thinks the origin of Batman is. Now I have to track down the issues, because I've always wanted to read the full arc, and the whole comic within a comic device allows for some pretty interesting departures from traditional Batman constraints. And just looking at it now gives me the strangest feelings, like nostalgia, but more visceral and less easygoing. Thanks for the help!
When I was a kid, I remember having a strange issue of Batman, and I'd like to know more about it, whether it was part of a longer story arc, and when it was published. All I remember was that Batman was utterly insane, the joker dressed like a jester, there was an evil and violent bat-hound, the batmobile could talk, and there was a particularly disturbing scene where batman appears in a kid's mirror that ends with him holding the child and crying. Does anyone remember this strange and interesting issue?
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