(W) Paul Dini (A/CA) Riley Rossmo The Caped Crusader has been an icon of. Arleen Sorkin's voice certainly gave a great deal of life and dazzle to the character. 3, DETECTIVE COMICS 831, 837, DETECTIVE COMICS: HARLEY QUINN 23.2 and. They liked her, they thought she was funny. I think the audience just began to expect her. Not only was the main story a lot of fun, but Harley was a character who really seemed to pop, so the next time we did a Joker story and he needed a big gang of henchpeople, there was Harley. We really liked how the episode came out.

What’s interesting to observe here is that while Grant Morrison’s run on the sister comic Batman generally eschewed the traditional rogues (save for the Joker. From Dinis take on Selina Kyles path of vengeance against Hush, all the way to Batmans incredible journey on Detective Comics 1000, this omnibus. Though ironically, I can’t exactly say this is Paul Dini’s best workon the character or otherwise. I pitched it to Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, and Bruce was like, 'That sounds like fun.' So I wrote the script and Bruce did the design of her in the classic jester outfit, and everything just clicked. Dini brings that storytelling style to his run on the comic book, telling a series of short stories (almost vignettes) featuring Batman, his friends and his foes, old and new. So then I was shooting around names and I just came up with the name Harley Quinn. I thought what would be fun would be a Judy Holliday type, somebody snappy and a 'girl gone wrong' type of character. We never really pegged the decade but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s. There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to BTAS.

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