Yep, even The Clown Prince Of Crime got his own series in the Bronze Age. It's an odd, not entirely successful run, basically because you spend most of it waiting for Batman to walk into frame.
Not that there's no precedent for this kind of thing: The Joker here spends a lot of his time solidifying his reputation as top dog in the criminal underworld, by taking on other Bat-enemies like Two-Face, something
The Spider for one spent his entire career doing.
Unfortunately, we can't let The Joker win, so what you're left with is an admittedly fun series hidebound by it's central theme, plus as I say, it's by all the same creators as were then on the regular Bat series', so you really miss The Darknight Detective's presence. As did the writers, as there are multiple references to him throughout.
Still, the run has a nice line in self-mocking humour.
It kills me that The Joker goes around looking for 'satisfactory places to lurk...' Over here? Hmm...no, ooh, over there! Yes, THAT's a satisfactory place to lurk!
Ok, It's just me then...
And a series where old Smiley Face falls in love with Black Canary's alter ego Dinah Lance, and is chased up a bridge by Green Arrow that looks suspiciously like the one Gwen Stacy fell off, clearly has a lot to offer.
Or this issue, where The Creeper pops up and does his thing, a security guard is apparently allowed to read a priceless joke book on his lap while driving it to the library, and Denny O' Neill takes a few barbed potshots at Charles M. Schulz. The madness! The madness!
