Batman #267

A skeleton-robed figure of death looms over a reeling Batman on this striking 1975 cover, delivering a grim "invitation to attend the execution of The Batman!" — sinister and theatrical in equal measure. Dick Giordano's cover work sets a genuinely unsettling tone, framing the Dark Knight as surprisingly vulnerable against this macabre, claw-fingered adversary. Inside, David V. Reed scripts "Invitation to a Murder!" with art by Ernie Chua and inks by Dick Giordano — a creative team that clearly knew how to make a September issue impossible to put down.