Detective Comics #336

From February 1965, Detective Comics #336 features a wonderfully eerie cover by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella: a cackling witch-like villain soars on a broomstick before a full moon, crowing that his "Scarecrow Spell" has already been cast on Batman — who looms in the foreground, crackling with strange green energy and stitched like a scarecrow himself, while Robin desperately tries to pull the villain down with a rope. Actual scarecrows lurk in the shadowy field behind them, making the whole scene feel genuinely unsettling in that great Silver Age way. The story inside, "Batman's Bewitched Nightmare," is crafted by writer Gardner Fox and artist Sheldon Moldoff — a solid creative pairing that made this era of Detective Comics such a treat.