Nightwing #113

Nightwing stands defiantly atop a fallen, looming Deathstroke — the orange-and-blue mercenary's masked face filling the foreground — in a striking December 2005 cover penciled by Phil Hester and inked by Ande Parks. The bold tagline "Deathstroke's Dark Knight!" sets up a tense dynamic between Dick Grayson's hero and one of DC's most dangerous adversaries. Inside, writer Devin Grayson and artist Cliff Chiang bring their talents to "The Scorpion and the Frog," promising the kind of morally charged confrontation that title alone implies.