The Joker: Uncovered #1

Lee Bermejo's cover for The Joker: Uncovered #1 is a brilliantly unsettling holiday scene: the Joker, dressed in a full Santa suit with his green hair spilling out beneath the fur-trimmed hat, grins from a throne-like chair while a terrified toddler dressed in a Robin costume clutches a Batman action figure and wails in his lap — a department-store Santa photo gone gloriously wrong. The image captures the Clown Prince of Crime's gift for turning something cheerful into something deeply unnerving, and it does so with Bermejo's signature photorealistic intensity. With interior work from writer Dave Wielgosz and artist Jorge Corona, this 2023 one-shot promises a holiday gift that Gotham's most chaotic villain would absolutely approve of.