Batman #450

This 1990 issue from the team of Wolfman, Aparo, and DeCarlo opens with a cover by Norm Breyfogle that's genuinely unsettling: the Joker sits hunched in a shadowy, cluttered room, his face a mask of menace amid curling wisps of smoke, while newspaper headlines scattered at his feet scream of his crimes. In the background, Batman stands framed in a broken window, cape spread, watching the scene with quiet intensity. It's a wonderfully atmospheric setup for "Wildcard!" — two forces at opposite ends of Gotham's moral spectrum, separated by just a pane of shattered glass.