Detective Comics Annual #2

Detective Comics Annual #2 brings an all-new 1989 story — "Blood Secrets" — with writing by Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn, and interior art by Val Semeiks and Michael Bair. Brian Bolland's cover sets a genuinely unsettling tone: a robed, hooded Klan figure on horseback brandishes a lit torch in the foreground, while Batman looms as a dark, winged silhouette against a deep blue sky above. It's a striking piece of cover art that signals Batman will be going up against hatred in one of its ugliest historical forms.