Detective Comics #292

A giant Batman towers over Gotham's rooftops on this June 1961 cover, snatching the Batmobile right out of the air with one enormous hand — a wonderfully surreal image brought to life by Sheldon Moldoff's cover art. The speech bubble makes the stakes delightfully clear: someone is very relieved that an oversized Dark Knight arrived just in the nick of time. "The Colossus of Gotham City" promises the kind of imaginative, anything-goes storytelling that made Silver Age DC so endearing, with interior art by Joe Certa and a script by Jack Miller.