Batman #296

Batman faces a towering, burlap-clad Scarecrow on this February 1978 cover — the villain looms enormous over the Dark Knight, ragged robes swirling and clawed hands reaching as Batman twists away in a moment of urgent, dynamic tension. The cover art by Sal Amendola and Al Milgrom gives the "Macabre Master of Fear" a genuinely unsettling physical presence, making him feel like a genuine threat rather than a mere oddity. "The Sinister Straws of the Scarecrow" promises the kind of atmospheric Batman storytelling that made this era of DC comics such a treat.