Batman #403

A wild-eyed, red-eyed blond figure dominates this striking 1987 cover, clutching Batman's cowl in a white-knuckled grip — the tension between the man and the mask is immediate and unsettling. The title "One Batman Too Many!" says everything about the identity crisis at the heart of this issue, written by Max Allan Collins with art by Denys Cowan. The cover, penciled by Cowan and inked by Dick Giordano, delivers a memorably confrontational image that makes it genuinely hard to set this one down without opening it.