Atari Force #1

The launch of DC's boldest science-fiction team arrives with this 1984 first issue, promising readers "The Strangest S-F Heroes of All." José Luis García-López's cover delivers on that promise immediately, assembling a wild ensemble — a lion-faced gunslinger, a white-haired woman wielding a rifle, a red-suited blond hero, an alien creature in blue, a pale figure in a frock coat, and more — charging forward against a looming purple backdrop. Writer Gerry Conway and García-López set the stage for "Fresh Blood," and if this cover is any indication, the Atari Force is a team unlike anything else on the 1984 stands.