Batman / Judge Dredd: Die Laughing #2

Judge Dredd stands front and center on this striking cover by Jim Murray, blazing away with his Lawgiver as spent casings fly through the air, while Batman looms behind him amid swirling cape and foliage — and a gruesome sprawl of fallen figures fills the foreground. The pairing of Mega-City One's toughest lawman and Gotham's Dark Knight, rendered here in Murray's gritty, kinetic style, promises a conclusion that earns the subtitle Die Laughing. Written by Alan Grant and John Wagner, this 1999 finale to the two-part crossover delivers the kind of team-up energy that made DC's prestige-format event books so compelling.