The Doom Patrol #121

The cover of The Doom Patrol #121 sets an unmistakably somber mood: beneath a pale full moon and bare, twisted trees, three grieving figures — Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, and Robotman — stand hunched over their own R.I.P. gravestones in a misty graveyard. Joe Orlando's cover art wrings genuine dread out of that bold yellow banner asking "Is This the Beginning of the End of the Doom Patrol?" — with a defiant "You Decide!" blazed across the bottom. Writer Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani were clearly pushing DC's beloved team of outsiders to their limits in 1968, and this haunting image makes it hard not to flip straight to the story inside.