Nightwing #27

Nightwing #27 finds Dick Grayson crouched and battle-ready atop a crumbling rooftop, escrima sticks in hand, with a swarm of bats cutting across a crimson sky above him — a mood-setter that instantly captures the tension of a Blüdhaven night. Below him, a masked, purple-caped adversary appears bound and struggling, setting up a striking visual contrast between predator and prey. Writer Chuck Dixon and cover artists Scott McDaniel and Karl Story deliver a cover with real kinetic energy that makes January 1999 feel like a great time to be reading Nightwing.