Batman #425

This November 1988 issue of Batman opens with one of the more viscerally striking covers of its era — the Dark Knight crouched low to the ground, gritting his teeth as a towering, teetering stack of crushed and wrecked automobiles looms directly above him, threatening to come crashing down. The sense of weight and impending doom is palpable, with debris already scattering around him in a junkyard setting rendered with confident, kinetic energy by cover artist Mark Bright. Inside, writer Jim Starlin and artist Doc Bright bring the story "Consequences" to life — a title that hints at the kind of grim reckoning that defined Batman storytelling in the late 1980s.