Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #210

Ariel Olivetti's painted cover sets a somber, atmospheric tone — a massive, brooding Batman kneels beneath a full moon, cradling the limp form of a dark-haired woman amid rocky shallows, his cape draped around her like a shroud. The blue-washed scene carries genuine emotional weight, making this penultimate chapter of Bruce Jones's five-part "Darker Than Death" feel appropriately tense and melancholy. A compelling chapter in a noir-tinged 2006 arc that leans hard into the Dark Knight's more haunted side.