Tales of the Teen Titans #84

Four figures — a winged gargoyle-like creature, a wild-maned dark figure in purple, a fierce woman with voluminous hair and glowing fists, and a powerfully built man in blue-and-yellow charging straight at the reader — fill this December 1987 cover with urgent, confrontational energy. The "Millennium Is Coming" banner hints at bigger DC Universe events on the horizon, while the story title "Hell Is the Hybrid" promises something genuinely unsettling inside. With Marv Wolfman writing and Eduardo Barreto and Romeo Tanghal on interior art, this late-run issue of Tales of the Teen Titans delivers the kind of charged team dynamics the series did so well.