Batman: Fear State Alpha #1, Jorge Jimenez 1:25 Variant, CGC 9.8 (03), DC '21

Jorge Jimenez 1:25 incentive card stock design variant cover.

Batman: Fear State: Alpha #1 is the one-shot that opened DC's 2021 Fear State event, the culmination of James Tynion IV's Batman run. Written by Tynion IV with interior art by Riccardo Federici, the issue plants every major piece on the board: Scarecrow and Simon Saint's fear-based plan for Gotham, the "Batman is dead" broadcast that sends the city into chaos, and the emergence of a mysterious new Oracle figure operating in the shadows. It is a dense, high-stakes prologue that sets the tone and stakes for the entire crossover.

This copy is the 1:25 incentive card stock variant with a cover by Jorge Jimenez, one of the defining Batman artists of the Tynion era. Jimenez's design variant covers from this period are character-sheet style compositions that stand apart visually from the standard covers, making them a natural target for fans who followed his run on the main Batman title. The card stock format gives the cover art a premium, gallery-print quality. At a 1:25 ratio, retailers had to order 25 copies of the issue to qualify for a single copy of this variant, making it low ordered relative to the standard cover.

The copy is graded CGC 9.8, the top census grade for modern books, certified under number 4188724003. For collectors building a complete Fear State variant set or following Jimenez's Batman cover work specifically, this is the high-grade copy of the hardest-to-find cover from the event's opening chapter.