Doom Patrol #31

Grant Morrison, Richard Case, and John Nyberg's surrealist DC series hits a fever pitch with this April 1990 installment, "The Word Made Flesh." Simon Bisley's cover is a densely layered vision of a goggled, wide-mouthed figure in a top hat, buried beneath a cascade of handwritten letters and notes — one reading "Karen, love you always, Simon" — while colorful balloons, a robotic arm, and a pair of floating lips crowd the background against a gothic architectural backdrop. It's the kind of cover that rewards a long second look, perfectly capturing the strange, restless energy that made Morrison's Doom Patrol run so compelling.