One of Batman’s most iconic comic book covers is getting a toxic makeover.
AIPT can exclusively reveal artist Greg Scott’s variant cover for The Toxic Avenger vs. The Noxious Offender #1, an unmistakable homage to Neal Adams’ legendary Batman #251. Swapping the Dark Knight and Joker for Toxie and his twisted counterpart, the Noxious Offender, the cover perfectly captures the composition and menace of the 1973 classic while giving it an appropriately Tromaville spin.
Check out the exclusive cover below!
Launching this October from AHOY Comics and Troma Entertainment, The Toxic Avenger vs. The Noxious Offender is a five-issue event by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors and artist Felipe Sobreiro. The series marks the first comic book appearance of the Noxious Offender, the villainous doppelgänger who first appeared in Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
The story finds Toxie’s life turned upside down when an evil duplicate arrives from another dimension just as his estranged father unexpectedly reenters his life. At the same time, Toxie and his girlfriend Yvonne are preparing to become parents, forcing the mutant hero to confront questions about family, responsibility, and the darkness lurking within himself.
“As Noxie takes over Tromaville, he seems to give people permission to engage in their darker impulses, violence, and conspiracism,” Bors said. “Parenting, mutant pregnancy, and themes of social cohesion are the name of the game. Toxie vs. Noxie will be in turns gross, funny, and brutal, with an unsettling undercurrent that asks how capable each of us might be of mind-bending violence if the circumstances were just bad enough.”
Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer says the series builds on one of comics’ oldest storytelling traditions while taking it in a uniquely Toxic direction.
“Using the dark universe counterpart to play off a hero is a longstanding comic book tradition, and with Toxie vs. Noxie, Matt and Felipe stretch it out, subvert it, and take it to the extreme,” Peyer said. “Noxie is a product of bad parenting, automatic weapons, and screen time. He’s Toxie’s twisted brain matter, raised on hate, and gunning for anyone who sees a future worth having.”
Scott’s homage cover joins a lineup that also includes a main cover by Matt Bors and a photo variant from Troma Entertainment. While longtime Batman fans will immediately recognize the inspiration, the image also fits the central conflict of the series, with hero and villain locked in a tense face-to-face confrontation.
The Toxic Avenger vs. The Noxious Offender #1 arrives in comic shops in October 2026.
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