In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, since this is a five-week month, we head back thirty years to December 1993, for the reveal of Harley Quinn’s origin in The Batman Adventures: Mad Love. Earlier this year, Arleen Sorkin tragically passed away. The acclaimed comedic actor was the original voice for Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn debuted in the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Joker’s Favor,” which was the eighth episode of the show’s first season. As the episode was being developed, writer Paul Dini aimed to give Mark Hamill’s version of The Joker a female sidekick in the vein of comic duos and gangster molls of the past. His inspiration came from an old friend of his who starred in a popular soap opera. Arleen Sorkin played the character Calliope Jones on Days of Our Lives, with Jones known for her somewhat zany attitude and peculiar voice.Shockingly, though, her origin didn’t appear in the cartoon, but in a comic book, December 1993’s The Batman Adventures: Mad Love #1, by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini (Rick Taylor the colorist and Tim Harkins was the letterer), one of the best one-shots ever!
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, since this is a five-week month, we head back thirty years to December 1993, for the reveal of Harley Quinn’s origin in The Batman Adventures: Mad Love.
Earlier this year, Arleen Sorkin tragically passed away. The acclaimed comedic actor was the original voice for Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn debuted in the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Joker’s Favor,” which was the eighth episode of the show’s first season. As the episode was being developed, writer Paul Dini aimed to give Mark Hamill’s version of The Joker a female sidekick in the vein of comic duos and gangster molls of the past. His inspiration came from an old friend of his who starred in a popular soap opera. Arleen Sorkin played the character Calliope Jones on Days of Our Lives, with Jones known for her somewhat zany attitude and peculiar voice.
Shockingly, though, her origin didn’t appear in the cartoon, but in a comic book, December 1993’s The Batman Adventures: Mad Love #1, by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini (Rick Taylor the colorist and Tim Harkins was the letterer), one of the best one-shots ever!
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