Doom Patrol #57

Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol consistently pushed DC's mature-readers line into genuinely unsettling territory, and this July 1992 issue is a striking example. Simon Bisley's cover art is all menace — a grotesque, green-skinned figure with red eyes, gnarled hands, and a hooded cloak looms close, leering with barely contained malevolence against a stark orange foreground. It's a wonderfully visceral image that sets an ominous tone for "The Nature of the Catastrophe," with interior art handled by Richard Case, Stan Woch, and Mark McKenna.