Doom Patrol #87

The tagline "The End Sanctifies the Means" sets a quietly ominous tone for this 1995 DC/Vertigo chapter of Rachel Pollack and Ted McKeever's Doom Patrol run. Kyle Baker's cover is genuinely striking — a group of silhouetted figures stand together against a vast, turbulent sky ablaze with deep oranges, reds, and a luminous yellow-white burst of light at the horizon, the whole scene radiating both dread and strange wonder. It's the kind of image that lingers, perfectly in step with the mature, boundary-pushing sensibility that defined Vertigo at its most ambitious.