Azrael: Agent of the Bat #88

Issue #88 of Azrael: Agent of the Bat brings a striking 2002 cover by penciler Mike Zeck and inker Jerry Ordway, showing Nightwing lunging urgently along the face of a massive clock tower, the city skyline glittering far below him. Through the clock's glass, a figure sits at a bank of monitors displaying a "MISSING" poster bearing Azrael's masked face — a quietly urgent detail that makes the cover's tagline, "Nightwing Begins the Search!", feel immediately personal. Writer Dennis O'Neil is joined by artist Sergio Cariello and inker James Pascoe for the interior story "Lost and Found," promising exactly the kind of tense, street-level detective work this long-running series does so well.