Azrael: Agent of the Bat #51

Part of DC's sweeping 1999 "No Man's Land" crossover event, this issue finds Azrael standing defiantly against a storm-ravaged sky as jagged lightning erupts around him, his dramatic red-winged cape billowing and his silver-and-black armored suit catching the electric light. The cover teases a "Sign from Above!" — a charged, atmospheric moment rendered with real kinetic energy by penciler Roger Robinson and inker James Pascoe. Dennis O'Neil's "Miracle Run!" promises exactly the kind of high-stakes tension that makes Azrael such a compelling figure in Gotham's darkest chapter.