Detective Comics #507

Detective Comics #507 brings the "Dressed to Die!" arc to its startling conclusion, and the cover — penciled by Denys Cowan and inked by Dick Giordano — sets the tension ablaze. Batman squares off against the golden, featureless figure of Manikin amid a backdrop of roaring flames, with Manikin's speech bubble making the threat crystal clear: "Stand aside or Manikin will destroy you!" It's a vivid, kinetic image that captures everything readers loved about Batman's corner of DC in 1981 — high stakes, a genuinely unsettling villain, and the Dark Knight refusing to back down.