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Grissom set up his right-hand man, Jack Napier, as revenge for sleeping with his mistress Alicia Hunt behind his back. He sent Napier to rob Axis Chemicals, but really to be killed by Lt. Eckhardt in a trap. Eckhardt was in Grissom's payroll. “The Joker” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Revenge (disambiguation). ... Axis Chemicals is a fictional chemical plant in the first Batman film and in DC Comics. ... Lt. ...

The plan went awry thanks to the intervention of Batman, who knocked Napier into a vat of chemicals, transforming him into the Joker. One of the first things the Joker did was surprise Grissom in his office and take his revenge by shooting his former boss away until he ran out of bullets in his revolver. He is the first that Napier kills in the form of the Joker. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... “The Joker” redirects here. ...

An earlier treatment of the 1989 'Batman' film included Rupert Thorne, a recurring adversary in the Batman comics, in the Grissom role, but the decision was made to replace Thorne with an original character. Rupert Thorne is a fictional character in the Batman universe, created by Steve Englehart and Walter Simonson in Detective Comics #469. ...