Meet the Demon's Head in Batman: Tales of the Demon, featuring one of Batman's most formidable adveraries, the founder of the League of Assassins, the one they call Ra's al Ghul! Batman scales the side of the Statue of Freedom for a secret meeting with an informant inside the torch. During the meeting the informant is assassinated, leaving Batman with his final words instructing him to find a person called Darkk on the Soom Express. Finding and confronting Darkk Batman is assaulted, leaving him unconscious, and finds himself in a dungeon unmasked. There he meets the Daughter of the Demon, Talia who jump-starts his journey in finding the League of Assassins and it's founder, Ra's al Ghul.
This volume collects the earliest Ra's al Ghul stories written by Dennis O'Neil and illustrated by artists Neal Adams, Michael Golden, Irv Novick, Bob Brown and Dick Giordano.
Collects
Detective Comics #411, #485, #489-490,
Batman #232, #235, #240, #242-244 and
DC Special Series #15.