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Cover: Berni Wrightson

Batman The Cult #1

Sep 1988 · DC · 3.50 USD; 4.75 CAD

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“Book One: Ordeal”

Berni Wrightson's painted cover sets an unsettling tone immediately: Batman lies prone and helpless on a blood-spattered Gotham City sewer grate, his gloved hand slack against the cold metal — a deeply disquieting image for a hero usually defined by control. This first book of Jim Starlin's four-part prestige-format series promises something darker and more personal than a typical Batman adventure, with Wrightson's painted artwork lending the whole affair a grim, horror-inflected weight. If you've ever wanted to see Gotham's underground rendered with genuine dread, "Book One: Ordeal" is a striking place to start.

writer Jim Starlin · artist, inker Berni Wrightson · colorist Bill Wray · letterer John Costanza · cover Berni Wrightson

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Full credits

writer Jim Starlin

artist, inker Berni Wrightson

colorist Bill Wray

letterer John Costanza

cover pencils, inks Berni Wrightson

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Batman is captured and brainwashed.

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