Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #117

Part one of "Bread and Circuses" arrives in this May 1999 installment of Legends of the Dark Knight, placing Batman squarely within the sprawling "No Man's Land" crossover. D'Israeli's cover is striking in its simplicity — Batman rendered as a massive dark silhouette, cape spread wide, facing down a semicircle of armed figures advancing through a blazing red-and-yellow inferno. The sheer scale of the opposition closing in around the Dark Knight makes this a genuinely arresting image, with Ian Edginton and D'Israeli promising a story as stark and uncompromising as the ruined Gotham it's set in.