Detective Comics #13

The Penguin dominates this New 52 cover, rendered in gleeful close-up by Jason Fabok — monocle gleaming, cigarette holder in hand, his fur-collared coat filling the frame as a blood-red moon and a swirl of bats loom behind him. A determined Batman presses forward in the foreground, while a shadowy figure looms ominously in the background, making this a genuinely striking composition that sells the tagline "The Time of the Penguin…Is Now!" Written by John Layman, this December 2012 issue of Detective Comics looks like a treat for anyone who loves Oswald Cobblepot at his most dangerously self-satisfied.