Since you've clearly read the book more recently than I, who states that he's just escaped from Arkham? If it's the Joker himself ... does the expression unreliable source mean anything to you?

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Commissioner Gordon.

And it's not a matter of having read it more recently--I haven't, in fact, read it in at least 8 years. I just have a pretty good memory for pointless details.

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Ah, but, see, then you have read it more recently than I, as I have not read it since it was originally published.

Would you like to play some more?

In any event, I submit that it makes very little sense for him to have just broken out of Arkham "right before" A Death in The Family when he was still on the loose at the end of this annual. (He shows up to annoy Harjavti at the end.) That would do far more to suggest Arkham as easily escapable, since he would have been recaptured and then escaped again after only a few weeks, in comic book time.

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