Batman #420

The concluding chapter of "Ten Nights of the Beast" arrives in this June 1988 issue, and Mike Zeck's cover says everything about the intensity inside — a grimacing, rain-soaked Batman has a masked adversary dead in his grip, utility belt gleaming as water flies around them both. With Jim Starlin writing and Jim Aparo on interior art, this four-part arc wraps up with the Dark Knight pushed to his absolute limits. A genuinely gripping finale to one of the more hard-edged Batman stories of the late 1980s.