Detective Comics #318

This August 1963 issue of Detective Comics promises an extra-long Batman adventure with a villain pairing that clearly has the Dynamic Duo rattled. The cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff lays out the threat vividly: Batman and Robin face off against Cat-Man in his striking yellow-and-orange costume, while a green-clad Cat-Woman — Batwoman transformed — stands defiantly at his side, all beneath a looming giant cat's-head throne. Batman's exclamation says it all, and "The Cat-Man Strikes Back!" is written by Bill Finger with art by Jim Mooney, delivering the kind of colorful, high-stakes cat-themed mischief that made early-'60s DC so much fun.