JLA #60

Few holiday covers pack quite this much chaos into a single scene — JLA #60, subtitled 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas!, delivers a wonderfully absurd yuletide brawl straight from January 2002. The cover by Cliff Rathburn and Paul Neary puts a snarling, green-gloved bruiser front and center, wrestling a white-haired figure in a Santa suit to the ground, while a red-costumed young hero with goggles grapples nearby, Wonder Woman charges into the fray, Superman soars through a broken window, and armed combatants crowd a debris-strewn workshop scattered with broken toys. Written by Mark Waid, this is exactly the kind of delightfully irreverent holiday mashup that keeps longtime DC readers grinning long after the season ends.