Golden Age Batman issues gave us not only numerous neat splash pages, but also plenty of riveting covers with the Dynamic Duo in quintessentially pulpy, beautifully acrobatic, and/or endearingly humorous situations. Although the era’s cover images tended to be more elaborate than the interior artwork (whose naïve-looking lack of distracting details has its own charm), they nevertheless exhibited a directness that I find quite appealing, seemingly striving for potent clarity and excitement, as you can see in this week’s reminder that comics can be awesome:
