Batman: The Ultimate Evil
DC · 1995 · 2 issues
About the series
In 1995, DC Comics published this two-issue prestige-format story that brought crime novelist Andrew Vachss’s gritty, real-world sensibility to Batman. Written by Vachss and Neal Barrett Jr. with stark, shadowy art by Denys Cowan, the series sends the Dark Knight undercover into a child-sex trafficking ring, forcing him to operate without his usual resources. It’s a raw, controversial, and socially conscious Batman tale that strips away the fantastical to confront a harrowing real-world evil.