Batman, Nightwing and Robin battle Ra's Al Ghul in the desert in one of Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan's best issues of their mid-'90s Detective Comics run. This also happens to be Tim Drake's first face-to-face encounter with the demon's head, proving he's every bit as evil and dangerous as Bruce, Dick and Alfred have told him. I found Batman's remark "He makes the Joker seem like a minor annoyance" real amusing. I think this is Dick's first battle with him as Nightwing as well. This also features one of the last times Talia is likeable in my book. Over the last 20 or so years she's been too bitchy for me to like anymore. Bane was an unwanted return, but I knew he'd loose in his impending rematch with Batman though.
Few titles have ever made it to #700, and 24 years later, this is still one of the best #700s I've seen to date. more