Source: theavclub.com

5. Night of the Stalker

Detective Comics # 439 (1974)

Okay then. Now that we’ve finished looking at the Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, I have some room left.

So I thought it might be fun to look at a few stories they left out and some that have come out since this collection was released. And to start, there has been an injustice. A true injustice. And that injustice is that Night of the Stalker has been left out of this collection. Night of the Stalker is perhaps the greatest Batman story of all time.

In it, a criminal gang, in commission of a robbery, wind up gunning down two parents in front of their kid. And Batman sees this. So Batman stalks them, taking them out one by one like an omega-tier badass. The moment where Batman drops the car keys at his feet and dares the crooks to come and get them gives me chills down my spine instantly.

It’s a phenomenal story that is most certainly worth your time.