O'Neil/Adams/Giordano goodness, from the climactic moment of the R'as Al Ghul saga in BATMAN 244. (Complete story in BATMAN 232, 236, 240, 242-244 and 245.)

Does it get any better than this?

I feel sorry for the many kids over the last 50 years who grew up without O'Neil/Adams Batman.
While it's been back in print in multiple editions over recent decades, probably the reaction
of most Batman readers to the names O'Neil and Adams is... who?

They don't know what they're missing.


Most recently reprinted in BATMAN ILLUSTRATED BY NEAL ADAMS, vol 3 (in hardcover and trade editions), in 2005 and 2013.