Tim Sales Batman is a slightly spookier, more whimsical figure than Lees inner-city adventurer. In Sales hands, Batmans mystique is perhaps more carefully preserved, as he is more often than not cloaked in shadows. However, during the action scenes (watch his aerial fight with The Joker in The Long Halloween), Sales Batman is a rippling ball of tensile muscle, a tangle of overgrown sinew that looks more like a pro wrestler or a UFC cage fighter than a superhero. For Tim Sale, Batman in action is a broad shouldered, almost mythical figure, a paragon of grim determination and raw physicality, barely restrained by a skin-tight suit and often partially obscured by a ragged, shadow-like cape. Sale hasnt drawn Bats as often as some of the other artists on this list, but every occasion that he has drawn the caped crusader has been an artistic triumph. From the Haunted Knight stories, to The Long Halloween and Dark Victory (all with Jeph Loeb) and the excellent Legends of The Dark Knight story Blades (with James Robinson) and beyond, Sale has never drawn a bad Batman story.