In Prohibition-era Chicago, the “Untouchables” wage war on Al Capone and his criminal empire, aided by a mysterious “bat-man” who may be more foe than friend.

Batman: Scar of the Bat is a hard-boiled Elseworlds one-shot written by Max Allan Collins  and illustrated by Eduardo Barreto. Together, they painstakingly evoke the smokey, streetwise, tommy-gun flavor of an era when life was cheap, death came easy, and enemies were encased in concrete.

Prestige Format. FC, 48 pg. Cover price $4.95. (stock image)