Batman #371

Catwoman dominates this May 1984 cover in the most arresting way possible — her feline mask fills the frame entirely, those wide cat-eyes reflecting Batman's silhouette in each glowing pupil, while the title logo itself has been cheekily overwritten with "CAT" in green. Ed Hannigan and Dick Giordano deliver a striking composition that turns the familiar Batman branding into a visual duel between the Dark Knight and his feline foil. With Doug Moench writing and Don Newton on interior art, "Nine Cradles of Death" promises the kind of tense, atmospheric storytelling that defined Batman in the early '80s.