Batman: The Golden Age #[nn]

This handsome Chronicle Books hardcover from 2000 puts the Dark Knight front and center — literally — with a striking close-up of Batman's cowled face filling the cover, his white blank eyes and confident grin radiating the bold, graphic energy of the Golden Age style. It's a wonderful showcase of how DC's earliest Batman artists rendered the character with such immediate, commanding presence. A great gateway into the stories and artwork that defined the Caped Crusader's earliest years.