Doom Patrol #34

Simon Bisley's striking cover for this 1990 Grant Morrison-scripted issue dominates with a massive, blue-toned gorilla in a red star beret and Doom Patrol uniform, pushing a vintage baby carriage while an enormous gun rests across his broad shoulders. Below him, two startled and rather ordinary-looking bystanders react in wide-eyed alarm — a perfect contrast of the bizarre against the mundane that captures the series' wonderfully strange sensibility. With Morrison, Richard Case, and John Nyberg on the interior and "The Soul of a New Machine" as the story, Doom Patrol #34 promises the kind of unsettling, off-kilter storytelling that made this run so memorable.