Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #40

Batman stands alone amid the smoking ruins of a devastated Gotham City on Bryan Talbot's striking cover — cape billowing, surrounded by rubble, twisted debris, and what appears to be a sea of fallen bodies, with a crumbling "Gotham" sign looming in the firelit background. It's a haunting image of a Dark Knight surveying total catastrophe, and it sets a genuinely unsettling tone for "Mask Part Two." Talbot pulls triple duty here as writer, artist, and inker, giving this December 1992 entry in DC's Legends of the Dark Knight series a bold, unified visual voice.