The Brave and the Bold #13

Batman and the Flash make for a compelling team-up in this July 2008 installment of The Brave and the Bold, with the story title "American Samuroids" giving you a strong hint of what kind of threat these two heroes are facing. Jerry Ordway's cover delivers the goods: a massive, sword-wielding samurai warrior in gleaming gold armor dominates the foreground, flanked by a grim Batman on the left while a wide-eyed Flash scrambles to react on the right amid a scene of urban rubble. Writer Mark Waid and Ordway — handling both pencils and inks on the cover — bring an energetic, larger-than-life quality to this pairing that makes it easy to see why The Brave and the Bold remained such a fan-favorite team-up title.