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Through the years, as the Batman legend has kept evolving, so has his arch-villain nemesis: the Clown Prince of Crime. Every era gets the Joker it deserves, and under the greasepaint, this most iconic of bad guys is a complex character: He needs to be funny to become truly terrifying. …

Len Wein, the comic book legend who co-created characters like Swamp Thing and X-Men’s Wolverine, died Sunday at the age of 69. No cause of death was provided, but Wein’s wife Christine Valada tweeted two days earlier that Wein underwent an unspecified surgery. “Len Wein will be remembered for the …