Batman: Gotham Knights #29

Batman fights for his life at the center of a crushing tide of hollow-eyed, reaching figures on Brian Bolland's viscerally unsettling cover for Batman: Gotham Knights #29 — a July 2002 issue written by Devin Grayson with interior art by Leonardo Manco. The Dark Knight, fists raised and a batarang cutting the air, is nearly swallowed by the mass of grasping hands and blank, ghoulish faces pressing in from every direction. With a title like "Zombie Zero," this second part of "The Mortician" promises exactly the kind of grim, atmospheric Gotham horror that makes this era of the series so compelling.