Batman comics have given the world plenty of awesome covers, whether by cleverly playing with their logo or by featuring terrifying depictions of the Joker (well, most of the time anyway). What is astonishing about Bat-covers, though, is not how many cool ones there are, but how many boring ones. Seriously, hundreds of covers just show the Dark Knight brooding, or jumping, or striking some kind of generic pose.
And sure, in the hands of the right artists this can be enough…
…but most of the time it’s not.
So today Gotham Calling fights back against mediocrity. Don’t tell PETA, but we are highlighting 10 memorable covers in which the Caped Crusader faces the rage of the animal kingdom:
NEXT: Tim Burton.
I love how in most of these covers he is kicking the crap out of an animal except for the Skunk. The fear of smelling bad makes the Dark Knight run for the hills!
Yeah, that skunk should totally become a recurring villain!