Batman #349

Something's gone seriously wrong between the Dynamic Duo — the cover of Batman #349 plunges readers straight into conflict, with Batman and Robin squaring off against each other beneath a swarm of bats in the stormy sky, the bold title "Blood Sport" leaving little doubt that the tension is real. Ross Andru's pencils and Dick Giordano's inks give the confrontation a kinetic, unsettling energy, with both figures caught mid-action as if neither is holding back. The cover's own teaser — "The story you NEVER expected to read in these pages!" — makes this 1982 DC issue hard to put back on the shelf.