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First Appearance fetishists are universally terrible people, this is an objective fact. The number of superhero designs that nailed it on issue 1 could be counted on a clumsy butcher's bad hand. It's clear to literally everybody but the samefag in this thread that the later designs are all superior in their various respects. I like the cartoon design, but the New 52 design is pretty fun too.
Of course, either of those would require some serious new tooling: a new head, and probably a soft plastic jacket piece. That on top of the tooling costs for the manhole cover... actually, the only difference between that universe and this one is that this one has a terrible soft goods coat instead of a jacket piece and the joker's arms. Though I suppose the Joker's arms would be huge, if the Icons series has anything approaching a teenage body scale. I don't actually know if that's the case.