The Dark Knight poster has arrived!

At the end of The Joker’s scavenger hunt today, the first poster for The Dark Knight finally arrived:

Click it to see it bigger.

It’s about 47 kinds of bad-ass.

Fans around the country followed The Joker’s clues to bakeries, where they picked up cakes stuffed with a cell phone, Joker cards and a letter from The Joker himself. When all the cakes had been picked up and all of The Joker’s instructions had been followed, the poster was revealed right here.

Click on the first Joker card to see the poster, and click on the second card to register for free tickets to see the Joker IMAX prologue before IMAX screenings of Will Smith’s I Am Legend in select cities and theaters on December 14!

Speaking of the IMAX Joker prologue, click here to read Patrick Sauriol’s review and here for MTV’s coverage.

And I’m going to need a copy of that poster.

And know we know a little more about what “Why So Serious?” means.

The Joker says step right up … to what?

Update:

Bakeries! Cakes! Cell phones and further instructions from The Joker are stuffed inside the cakes! Click here and here to read all about it!

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Update:

The monkey has disappeared, and now there’s a carnival game in its place:

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Update:

We’re down to under an hour now. Something’s going to happen at high noon.

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We knew it was only a matter of time before he’d try something new, and it’s about to happen soon.

The Joker’s Why So Serious website, there’s a new Step Right Up page with a stuffed monkey and a ticker that’s counting down to who knows what:

Right now we’ve got less than four hours left before that thing hits zero.

What will be revealed?

I’m at work right now, so keep your eyes on Batman on Film for more news and updates.

There are also more new viral marketing websites than I can keep up with, but you can get a good rundown right here.

More to come as it happens!