Gotham Nights #4

The concluding chapter of this 1992 four-issue miniseries brings John Ostrander's street-level Gotham City saga to a close, with cover art by Eduardo Barreto that puts a tense, bespectacled woman in a red hat front and center — clutching a double-barreled shotgun while Batman's silhouette looms watchfully in the darkened window behind her. It's an unusually human image for a Batman book, foregrounding an ordinary Gotham resident rather than costumed spectacle, which fits the series' thematic promise right there on the cover: "The People of Gotham City… and Batman." A quietly gripping finale to a miniseries that kept its focus on the city's heartbeat.