Batman #424

This October 1988 issue of Batman presents one of the more unsettling covers of its era: Robin, cape billowing against a dizzying urban canyon, looms in the foreground as a figure in a yellow jacket plummets toward the street far below. The vertigo-inducing perspective — skyscrapers stretching away on both sides, tiny cars dotting the road beneath — gives the scene an immediate, gut-punch tension that's hard to shake. With Jim Starlin writing and the cover by Mark Bright and Joe Rubinstein, "The Diplomat's Son" promises a morally charged chapter in the Dark Knight's world.