Animaniacs #17

Dot Warner gets the fairy-tale treatment in this 1996 DC Comics outing, cast as a reluctant princess who makes her feelings perfectly clear — her speech bubble declaring "Ewww!! I'd rather kiss a hunchback!" says it all. The cover, penciled by Cosme Quartieri and inked by Horacio Ottolini, depicts a shaggy, wide-eyed Beast looming over an unimpressed Dot against a moody castle backdrop, capturing the show's signature blend of classic story parody and laugh-out-loud attitude. With a story titled "Beauty or the Beast," issue #17 promises the kind of anarchic humor that made Animaniacs such a standout of mid-'90s pop culture.