Batman #430

Batman looms large against a vivid pink sky in Frederik Butler's striking cover for this February 1989 issue, cape billowing as he crouches over Gotham's rooftops with a fierce, urgent intensity. The cover copy sets the mood perfectly: somewhere below lurks a madman with a rifle — and a secret the Dark Knight dare not face. With Jim Starlin writing and Jim Aparo on interior art, "Fatal Wish" promises the kind of tense, character-driven storytelling that made this era of Batman so compelling.