An ad for a Batman Elseworlds book before Batman Elseworlds books bred like bunnies

Batman: Holy Terror (not to be confused with Frank Miller’s abandoned Holy Terror, Batman!) was the first book to bear the Elseworlds imprint, and in that sense it, along with forebear Gotham by Gaslight, is responsible for a lineage of vastly divergent quality. Thank you for some of it. Damn you for most of it — holy terror indeed.

Love that Norm Breyfogle Batman, though. One of the Batmen of my youth. If you’re in the market for a stylized, nightmarish Caped Crusader, you need look no further. A Breyfogle return to the character might be the one thing that could force me to shell out the three dollars for a new comic book.