Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #211

A tense confrontation anchors Ariel Olivetti's painted cover for this December 2006 finale of "Darker Than Death" — Batman stands poised with fist raised against a wooded backdrop, while a bald, yellow-jacketed figure sits bound to a chair, a knife clutched behind his back in a last act of defiance. With Bruce Jones wrapping up this five-part arc and Olivetti handling every aspect of the art duties, issue #211 of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight delivers the kind of brooding, atmospheric tension the series does so well.