<P> Though a number of backstories have been given , a definitive one has not yet been established for the Joker . An unreliable narrator , the character is uncertain of who he was before and how he became the Joker : `` Sometimes I remember it one way , sometimes another ... if I 'm going to have a past , I prefer it to be multiple choice ! '' A story about the Joker 's origin appeared in Detective Comics # 168 ( February 1951 ) , nearly a decade after the character 's debut . Here , the character is a laboratory worker who becomes the Red Hood ( a masked criminal ) to steal a million dollars from his employer and retire . He falls into a vat of chemical waste when his heist is thwarted by Batman , emerging with bleached white skin , red lips , green hair and a permanent grin . </P>
<P> Though a number of backstories have been given , a definitive one has not yet been established for the Joker . An unreliable narrator , the character is uncertain of who he was before and how he became the Joker : `` Sometimes I remember it one way , sometimes another ... if I 'm going to have a past , I prefer it to be multiple choice ! '' A story about the Joker 's origin appeared in Detective Comics # 168 ( February 1951 ) , nearly a decade after the character 's debut . Here , the character is a laboratory worker who becomes the Red Hood ( a masked criminal ) to steal a million dollars from his employer and retire . He falls into a vat of chemical waste when his heist is thwarted by Batman , emerging with bleached white skin , red lips , green hair and a permanent grin . </P>
who was the joker before he went crazy
who was the joker before he went crazy
the character is uncertain of who he was before
the character is uncertain of who he was before