All Comic Spotlights

Written by Scott Snyder · 2025

Batman confronts the Joker's true origin and another Ark M threat while enlisting Wonder Woman's help in this New York Times bestseller.

Written by Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka · 2002

The detectives of Gotham's Major Crimes Unit investigate murders with barely any help from Batman, in the Eisner-winning "Half a Life" arc.

Written by Grant Morrison · 1989

Grant Morrison and Dave McKean send Batman into a Joker-led asylum uprising in a psychologically dense meditation on sanity and madness.

Written by Bill Finger, Len Wein, Mike W. Barr & Others · 2017

Trace Clayface's shape-shifting history across decades of Batman stories, from Basil Karlo's origin to the villain reimagined in DC's 2026 film.

Written by Scott Snyder · 2011

Batman discovers a secret society that has secretly ruled Gotham for centuries, in the story that launched Scott Snyder's acclaimed run.

Written by Jeph Loeb · 2002

A mystery villain manipulates nearly every member of Batman's rogues gallery in one of the best-selling Batman stories ever told.

Written by Alan Moore · 1988

Alan Moore and Brian Bolland push the Joker's philosophy of one bad day to its most disturbing extreme in this landmark 1988 one-shot.

Written by Tom King · 2021

Tom King and Bilquis Evely send a disillusioned Kara Zor-El on a cosmic road trip in the acclaimed saga now adapted into a 2026 film.

Written by Judd Winick · 2005

Jason Todd returns from the dead as the brutal vigilante Red Hood, forcing Batman to confront his own code in this acclaimed 2005 saga.

Written by Grant Morrison · 2016

Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette reimagine Wonder Woman's origin as a bold, unapologetically feminist retelling of her journey from Paradise Island.

Written by Frank Miller · 1987

Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli retell Batman's first year in Gotham, intertwined with Jim Gordon's fight against a corrupt police force.

Written by Jim Starlin · 1988

Jim Starlin's story let readers vote by phone on Jason Todd's fate — and Batman has never fully recovered from what they chose.

Written by Jeph Loeb · 1996

A holiday-killing mystery pushes Batman, Gordon, and Harvey Dent to the edge in the story Christopher Nolan called an epic tragedy.

Written by Sean Murphy · 2017

The Joker is cured of his madness and turns his sharpest weapon — public opinion — against Batman in Sean Murphy's acclaimed reinvention.

Written by Frank Miller · 1986

A retired, aging Batman returns to a dystopian Gotham and ends in a legendary clash with Superman in Frank Miller's 1986 masterpiece.

Written by Scott Snyder · 2024

Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta strip Batman of his fortune and mansion in the New York Times bestseller reinventing his entire origin.

Written by Scott Snyder · 2025

Batman uncovers Mr. Freeze's dark origin and Bane's true history inside the mysterious Ark M facility in this New York Times bestseller.

Written by Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon & Alan Grant · 1993

Bane frees every inmate in Arkham Asylum to exhaust Batman, then delivers the blow that breaks his back in this landmark 1993 saga.

Written by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Alan Grant & Dennis O'Neil · 1993

With Bruce Wayne broken, Jean-Paul Valley becomes a darker, more violent Batman — and starts losing control of who he's become.

Written by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Alan Grant & Jo Duffy · 1994

A healed Bruce Wayne returns to reclaim the cowl from an increasingly unstable Jean-Paul Valley in the trilogy's climactic final act.

Written by Art Spiegelman · 1986

Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir tells his father's Holocaust survival story with Jews drawn as mice, Nazis as cats.

Written by Marjane Satrapi · 2000

Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic memoir follows her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and her years of exile abroad.

Written by Neil Gaiman · 1989

Neil Gaiman's Dream escapes 70 years of imprisonment and sets off to reclaim his stolen power in the volume that launched a legend.

Written by Alan Moore · 1982

A masked anarchist wages a one-man war against fascist Britain in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's founding text of modern political comics.

Written by Alan Moore · 1987

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons deconstruct the superhero myth in the only graphic novel on TIME's list of the 100 best novels ever written.