Shade, the Changing Man #17

Cover artist Jamie Hewlett delivers a wonderfully unhinged image for this November 1991 issue: Shade himself dominates the composition, wild blue hair streaming behind him as he brandishes a disembodied eyeball in one raised fist, his patterned coat alive with swirling organic shapes. Flanking him are a pair of deeply unsettling creatures — a wide-eyed, doll-like figure and a grotesque bug-mouthed beast sprouting eyeball antennae — all set against a vivid red background beneath the taunting tagline, "Mine eyes have screamed the glory!" Peter Milligan, Chris Bachalo, and Rick Bryant bring "Darkness at High Noon" to life in this mature-readers DC title that continues to push the boundaries of psychedelic superhero storytelling.