Re: Could this have inspired the Joker?

<< It was called the Man Who Laughs from I believe 1927 starring Conrad Veidt.
I don't believe that there is a surviving print (damn flammable stock!),
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There was also a comic book adaptation of The Man 
Who Laughs; an issue of Classics Illustrated (The 
edition I have was printed in 1950). The original 
story was by Victor Hugo.