Deadman: Dead Again #2 (of 5). DC Comics 2001. WRITTEN BY STEVE VANCE; ART BY JIM APARO AND RICK BURCHETT; Deadman is summoned to an abandoned warehouse just in time to observe the torture of Jason Todd, the second Robin, at the hands of the Joker! Deadman tries to intervene, but the fate of Robin’s life is preordained. The fate of his afterlife, however, is another issue entirely.
This series is a callback to the classic Jim Starlin story, A Death in the Family – also drawn by Jim Aparo in Batman #426-#429 in the summer/autumn of 1988. It was collected into a best-selling graphic novel and adapted as an animated feature on 2020. Pages from that groundbreaking series are blue-chip comic art pages from the Copper Age, making this spectacular page (with the titular hero in every panel) a steal.
THE SPIRIT by Will Eisner
