Debut issue of the journal of the New York "situationist street gang" Black Mask, published November 1966. Includes a write up of their action… Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The ...

which reinvents Black Mask as a being of not just hyper ruthlessness but anarchy. He's the perfect arch-villain for this new Batman to take on, not because he's the Dark Knight's antithesis ...

In the new issue Batman meets with Black Mask, nominally with the intention ... so by putting a twist on a famous scene from The Dark Knight – then taking a quite improbable amount of punishment.