Doom Patrol #1

John Byrne relaunches DC's most delightfully strange super-team with this 2004 first issue, promising "The Circle Remains!" and arriving fresh from the pages of JLA. The cover, penciled and inked by Byrne himself, assembles an arresting group: a glowing, mechanically-enhanced figure and a skeletal energy form loom large above, while Batman, a Green Lantern, and a caped green-skinned figure observe from below, with a dark-haired woman looming watchfully in the background. It's a bold, character-packed image that sets an ambitious tone for Byrne's vision of the Doom Patrol.