10 Comics Panels Where You Really Didn't Want To Turn The Next Page

Batman has been kicking butt and taking names for decades, and he always seemed to go up against villains he could beat. Whether he proved someone's guilt via his incredible detective skills, or he beat someone up while they were committing a crime, Batman always seemed to come out on top.

No matter who he faced, his skills were always unmatched, and after nearly 500 issues of his own series, it was getting kind of dull. To crank up the intensity of the book, Doug Moench and Jim Aparo did something that hadn't really happened before; they broke the Bat.

When the reader flipped the page to number twenty, they saw Bane beating the crap out of Batman, and after getting him in his arms, the reader turns the page to find this splash, and the unthinkable actually happened. Batman had his back broken by Bane, who easily cracked the Dark Knight over his knee.

Now, most people don't recover from a broken back -- they certainly don't get back up to the level of being a badass superhero like Batman, so seeing this panel told the reader that Batman was done for.

Was he going to be replaced by another hero, or was DC killing him off for good? Turning the page might tell you, but doing so hurt about as much as this "KRAKT" must have hurt the Bat.