The Batman Adventures: Mad Love
| The Batman Adventures: Mad Love | |
|---|---|
Second printing cover of The Batman Adventures: Mad Love (1994) | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | December 14, 1993 |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Main character(s) | Harley Quinn Joker Batman |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Paul Dini Bruce Timm |
| Written by | Paul Dini Bruce Timm |
| Penciller(s) | Bruce Timm Glen Murakami |
| Inker(s) | Bruce Timm |
| Letterer(s) | Tim Harkins |
| Colorist(s) | Bruce Timm Rick Taylor |
| Editor(s) | Scott Peterson Darren Vincenzo |
| Collected editions | |
| The Batman Adventures: Dangerous Dames & Demons | ISBN 978-1-5638-9973-7 |
| Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories | ISBN 978-1-4012-2245-1 |
| Batman Adventures: Mad Love Deluxe Edition | ISBN 978-1-4012-5512-1 |
The Batman Adventures: Mad Love is a one-shot comic book written by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. It won the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue and the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story in 1994. Mad Love was adapted as an episode of the animated series The New Batman Adventures, among other examples, like the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum and the film Suicide Squad. In 2018, Titan Books released a novelization of Mad Love written by Dini and Pat Cadigan, which expanded upon the original comic book.
Set in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series, the comic presents an origin story of supervillain Joker's henchwoman Harley Quinn. It presents her past as a psychologist at Arkham Asylum who then falls in love with him.