Batgirl #26

Batgirl looms large in stark grayscale behind two vividly colored threats on this striking 2002 cover — a grinning, bare-chested villain in a red robe and a bloodied, wide-eyed figure in purple who thrusts a glowing lasso-like weapon toward the viewer. The contrast between Batgirl's monochrome presence and the menacing color of her adversaries gives the composition a genuinely unsettling tension, courtesy of cover pencils by Damion Scott and inks by Robert Campanella. Scott Peterson and Vince Giarrano's monthly series continues to deliver the kind of atmospheric Gotham storytelling that made this run one of DC's more quietly compelling titles of the era.