Batman #226

Batman faces a uniquely unsettling threat on Neal Adams's striking cover for this November 1970 issue — a hulking, masked figure looming overhead with fingers outstretched, while Batman crouches defensively below, both caption boxes raising the eerie question of how a blind man can track the Dark Knight's every move. The teaser title "The Man with Ten Eyes!" promises a villain as strange as he sounds, and Adams's dramatic composition — all swooping cape and tension — makes the mystery feel genuinely unnerving. With Frank Robbins writing and Irv Novick and Dick Giordano handling interior art, this is early-'70s Batman firing on all cylinders.