No supervillain has ever infected popular culture more than The Joker, and his ideals and personality always molded to the society in which he was apart, with a dangerous social message that people related to. From his birth 80 years ago as a homicidal clown to modern times, his impression on the youth and the disenfranchised has only become more rabid, and as each incarnation of him fades into obscurity the mirror he held up to audiences often reflected more than just a comic book villain. Part 1 of 3
