Robin #28

Part 11 of DC's "Contagion" crossover arrives in Robin #28, and Mike Wieringo and Terry Austin deliver a cover that pulls no punches — a visibly stricken Robin, his face marked by disease, recoils as translucent winged skulls swirl menacingly around him against a backdrop of roaring flames, with a fallen figure slumped at his feet. The skull-and-horror border framing the image gives the whole thing an appropriately grim, plague-ridden atmosphere that captures just how dire the Contagion threat has become by chapter eleven. Chuck Dixon, Wieringo, and Stan Woch carry the story inside, making this a must-have chapter for anyone following one of 1996's most ambitious Batman-universe events.