Batman #386

Batman #386 from August 1985 puts two intense faces front and center: a glowering, blue-toned figure in a wide-brimmed fedora looms large alongside a fierce, cape-spread Batman, while the fiery yellow background teems with a collage of faces and skulls. The cover's bold tagline — "Crazier than the Joker! Deadlier than Ra's al Ghul!" — announces Black Mask as a villain built for the decade, and the visual tension between the two figures makes it easy to see why this new antagonist demanded attention. Tom Mandrake's sharp, dramatic linework gives the whole composition a brooding, high-stakes energy that suits Doug Moench's "Losing Face" perfectly.