1968-09 Adams: Brave and the Bold #79 p12 Deadman (Neal Adams' first Batman work)

"when people say ‘modern Batman,’ they mean Neal Adams’ Batman."
http://www.wizardworld.com/nealadams.html

"Another highpoint was Adams' collaboration with Bob Haney on the Deadman team-up in #79 (August/September 1968) which won the Alley Award for Best Full-Length Story for 1968."
http://silverandbronzeagesubjects.blogspot.de/2012/08/top-5-team-up-books-brave-and-bold.html

"Adams' first effort for this title would be an impressive one, and his work would be one of his best runs of the bronze age. Like many of his best issues, the fact that he inks his own pencils is a considerable advantage. Within the same era, Adams would revitalize both Batman and Detective Comics titles for DC."
http://pencilink.blogspot.de/2008/12/brave-and-bold-79-neal-adams-art-cover.html

"Brave and the Bold #79 represents one of those pivotal moments in comic book history, certainly a pivotal moment in the history of Batman. It was a moment that started a movement with other great moments … and this movement back to a darker Batman eventually led to the publishing of the greatest Batman stories ever told!"
http://www.comicbookdaily.com/collecting-community/undervalued/undervalued-spotlight-98/

"That next-to-last panel on page 12 — showing Batman, his figure almost completely in shadow, running towards his frightened prey* with his scalloped cape billowing out behind him — is surely one of the strongest signifiers of Adams’ “new” Batman in the whole issue."
https://50yearoldcomics.com/2018/06/30/the-brave-and-the-bold-79-aug-sept-1968/