That BATMAN 366 cover is Simonson pencils and inks, but to me it looks like it could have been inked by Klaus Janson!
And regarding the DETECTIVE 450 story, by Simonson's own account in the 1989 book THE ART OF WALTER SIMONSON, DC's management was less than pleased with the changes in art style and his alterations to Batman in the story, just 7 issues after DETECTIVE 443. DC even had Simonson re-draw the facial expression of Batman on the opening splash page. THE ART OF WALT SIMONSON reprints the page as Simonson originally drew it. The book is a nice collection of Simonson's early work for DC, that I pull off the shelf to re-read pretty often.
But screw the opinion of DC management, I think it's a great story, one of my favorites.
As sparse as Simonson's run of Batman stories is, G-man, what made you select him as one of the top 5?
