Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers #[nn]

In "Battle of the Thinking Machines," a 2012 Legends of the Dark Knight tale written by Len Wein and illustrated by Marshall Rogers with inks by Dick Giordano, the line between man and monster blurs as Preston Payne's desperate attempt to cure his hyperpituitarism spirals into horror. Using blood from Matt Hagen, the second Clayface, Payne's transformation unleashes a terrifying new form of protoplasmic decay—one that turns his victims into liquid matter. Batman's intervention puts him directly in the path of a foe whose very existence threatens to dissolve reality itself. The cover, a striking collaboration by Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin, captures the chilling intensity of the confrontation.