'Mazing Man #1

DC's 1986 launch of 'Mazing Man announces itself with cheerful confidence, introducing a pint-sized hero in a bold yellow-and-black costume charging straight at the reader, his round-goggled helmet marked with a proud "M." Surrounding him in portrait circles are four supporting characters — Denton, Eddie, Brenda, and Guido — plus a tiny winged figure perched above the title, giving the whole cover the feel of a warm ensemble comedy rather than a cape-and-cowl slugfest. Cover artists Stephen DeStefano and Karl Kesel bring a wonderfully loose, cartoon-inflected energy to the lineup that makes this first issue hard to resist picking up.