Detective Comics #48

Andrew Robinson's rain-soaked cover for Detective Comics #48 sets a quietly intense mood, depicting Batman perched atop a stone gargoyle high above the Gotham rooftops as sheets of rain pour down around him. The stark split between deep shadow on the left and pale, storm-lit sky on the right gives the image a beautifully understated atmosphere. Peter J. Tomasi and the creative team of Pasarin, Ryan, and Sotomayor bring the interior story — "The Bronze Age Blood of Heroes" — promising exactly the kind of atmospheric Dark Knight adventure this cover so effectively hints at.