Doom Patrol #84

DC's Vertigo imprint was producing some of its most unsettling work in 1994, and this issue of Doom Patrol makes that case immediately with Kyle Baker's cover — a sickly green-washed figure, wild-eyed and disheveled, clutching what appears to be a deteriorating, reaching form beneath him, all rendered in a visceral two-tone palette that practically radiates dread. The tagline "Dream Stealers, Flesh Peelers, and Resurrected Healers…" sets the tone perfectly for Rachel Pollack's writing and Ted McKeever's interior art. It's the kind of cover that earns its "Suggested for Mature Readers" label without a moment's hesitation.