Doom Patrol #49

That brooding mechanical face — all copper-toned plates, glowing red eyes, and an eruption of gears, pipes, and valves crowding the space above — makes for one of the more quietly unsettling covers of 1991. Grant Morrison, Richard Case, and Mark Badger bring their mature-readers sensibility to "Death in Venice," and the cover's industrial colossus sets a suitably ominous tone. Tom Taggart's painted-style cover work gives the whole image a heavy, tactile weight that feels less like a superhero comic and more like something you'd find in a fever dream.