You Can't Win/Smiler/Joker/Batman?

A drama set in the 1800/1900s hobo underworld

You Can't Win/Joker/Smiler?

As I read through the "autobiographical" story 'You Can't Win' by Jack Black ... SPOILER ALERT ... the character Smiler who gets shot in the neck and dies in a failed burglary after following home a man and wife from the theatre because of the jewelry and other signs of wealth they were showing off, reminds me a lot of the Joker villain from Batman, and I wonder just how much influence this 1926 cult classic had on the future writers of the Batman story through the years, if any?

Anyone for Black-Jack?-) 

You Can't Win Quotes

You Can't Win by Jack Black, 
William S. Burroughs (Introduction)

Life and art can be a bigger mash-up than we know?

Just sayin':-)

Study for Worn Out was drawn
 early in the artist's career in 1882

2021: Worn Out or Drawn Out?