Batman #325

A rooftop standoff sets the stage in this July 1980 issue, with Batman lunging across steel girders toward a blond gunman in an orange jumpsuit who grips a rifle with clear intent — and the Bat-Signal blazing on the wall behind them leaves no doubt whose city this is. The cover's stark banner, "Tonight: Commissioner Gordon Must Die!", gives the whole scene an urgent, high-stakes charge that Jim Aparo renders with his characteristic kinetic energy. With interior work by Irv Novick and Roger McKenzie's scripting, Batman #325 is a sharp slice of Bronze Age Gotham drama.