Originally an engineer at the chemical company based in Gotham City known as Ace Chemicals, the unnamed man who became The Joker, felt like an outcast at his job due to being too much of a low-life, and quit to take up the career of a stand-up comedian, and eventually failed miserably. Desperate to earn money with his wife, Jeannie, heavily pregnant at home, the engineer turned to two criminals to help out, which they agreed to if he helped them through the chemical plant that he used to work at so that they could rob the Monarch Playing Cards company next door. To protect the engineer's identity during the robbery, the two criminals let the engineer take up the mantle of their gang's make-believe leader, The Red Hood, a criminal kingpin persona that was given to the inside man of every of