Silver Age: Justice League of America #1

Part of DC's 2000 "Silver Age" event, this issue drops us straight into a delightfully upside-down scenario where the Justice League — Green Lantern, Superman, The Flash, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Black Canary, and Batman — appear to be robbing the Happy Harbor Bank in broad daylight, money bags and all. Ty Templeton's cover captures the clean, bright energy of Silver Age storytelling while staging the kind of gleeful "heroes gone wrong" image that makes you want to flip to page one immediately. With Mark Millar writing and Scott Kolins on interior art, this one-shot is a lively piece of the larger Silver Age crossover puzzle DC assembled that summer.