Batman and the Outsiders #25

Alan Davis delivers a striking cover for issue #25 of Batman and the Outsiders, showing two figures — a blonde woman in a colorful costume and a blue-clad man with golden hair — tumbling helplessly through churning white rapids, while a mysterious woman in purple and two children watch impassively from the forest above. The contrast between the desperate struggle in the water and the eerily calm observers on the bank sets a genuinely unsettling tone that feels right at home in a story titled "A Serpent in Eden!" Writer Mike W. Barr and artist Alan Davis were clearly firing on all cylinders in September 1985 with this moody, suspenseful chapter in the Outsiders' ongoing adventures.