Doom Patrol #65

Under DC's Vertigo imprint, Doom Patrol #65 (April 1993) brings Rachel Pollack's run to a genuinely unsettling place, as suggested by Tom Taggart's striking painted cover — a massive, stone-textured demonic face looms from a dark blue background, its horned brow bearing a tiny red devil figure clutching a staff like some grotesque puppet master, while a row of lit candles flickers ominously below. The imagery feels ritualistic and otherworldly, perfectly suited to "Sliding in the Wreckage, Part Two: The Book of Ice." With interior art from Richard Case and Linda Medley, inked by Stan Woch, this is mature-readers Vertigo doing what it does best: making the strange feel genuinely foreboding.