Doom Patrol #44

Simon Bisley's painted cover for Doom Patrol #44 is a vivid, unsettling collage of fragmented figures — a bandaged form, a leering demonic face, a pale wide-eyed woman, and a massive grimacing creature crowding the composition with graffiti-scrawled words like "Drisle," "Biz," and "Craz" bleeding through the background. The fractured, almost hallucinatory layout feels perfectly suited to Grant Morrison's run, where the boundaries between sanity and chaos are always blurry. With Richard Case and Mark McKenna handling interiors and the story titled "Voices," this May 1991 issue promises the kind of beautifully strange storytelling that made this era of the book so compelling.