Question: Which year witnessed the formation of the company who owns the publisher of The Further Adventures of The Joker?

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine, with funding from Grosset & Dunlap and Curtis Publishing Company. It has since been purchased several times by companies including National General, Carl Lindner's American Financial and, most recently, Bertelsmann; it became part of Random House in 1998, when Bertelsmann purchased it to form Bantam Doubleday Dell. It began as a mass market publisher, mostly of reprints of hardcover books, with some original paperbacks as well. It expanded into both trade paperback and hardcover books, including original works, often reprinted in house as mass-market editions. <SEP> agatha christie: murder on the orient express is a 2006 adventure game developed by awe productions and published by the adventure company for microsoft windows. it is the second installment in the adventure company's "agatha christie" series. the setting is five years before the events in "", with a largely unrelated storyline. the plot follows an amateur sleuth, antoinette marceau, and her investigation of a murder with twelve possible suspects aboard the orient express, which has been blocked by an avalanche in the kingdom of yugoslavia during 1934. she is aided by famous detective hercule poirot. <SEP> The material was written by various authors (see below), and the book was edited by Martin H. Greenberg. It was the follow-up to an earlier Batman anthology, "The Further Adventures of Batman", and was followed by two later installments: "The Further Adventures of Batman vol. The Further Adventures of The Joker (1990; Bantam Books, 457 pages) is an English paperback anthology of short fiction stories about Batman's archenemy the Joker. 2 Featuring the Penguin" and "The Further Adventures of Batman vol. 3 Featuring Catwoman". <SEP> the saint on tv is a collection of two mystery novellas by fleming lee, continuing the adventures of the sleuth simon templar a.k.a. "the saint", created by leslie charteris. this book was first published in the united states in 1968 by the crime club, and in the united kingdom later that year by hodder and stoughton. this is the first time since 1948's "call for the saint" that the novella format had been used in the series; with a few exceptions where full-length novels were published, the novella format would remain the norm until the series concluded in the early 1980s. it is the first of three saint books to first see publication in 1968, which was also the 40th anniversary of the character's introduction. <SEP> Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial is Random House's Spanish-language division, targeting markets in Spain and South and Central America. It is headquartered in Barcelona with locations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and the United States. Upon Bertelsmann's acquisition of Mondadori's stake in the JV, the name was kept temporarily four months. From 2001 until November 2012, it was a joint venture with Italian publisher Mondadori (Random House Mondadori). Some authors published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial include Dr. César Lozano, Yordi Rosado, Dr. Nancy Alvarez and Alberto Sardiñas.