"Joker" creator Jerry Robinson dead at 89

American comic book artist Jerry Robinson passed away today at age 89, DC Comics and LA Times reported.

Robinson who created comic character Joker later on became a historian of the art form.

Robinson was a native of Trenton, N.J. He attented Columbia University as a journalism student around the time Bob Kane created Batman. He started working with Kane and writer Bill Finger as a letterer and background inker but became the primary inker after a year.

Robinson's Joker was portrayed in TV and films by actors Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, and then later on by Heath Ledger in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight."

Robinson was inducted in the "Comic Book Hall of Fame" in the year 2004.

SOURCES: NYDailyNews; Image