The Doom Patrol #95

The cover of The Doom Patrol #95 (May 1965) makes an immediate impression: the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man — billed right on the cover as "Villain of a Thousand Forms" — looms as a massive, grotesquely hybrid creature, his patchwork mineral-and-reptilian body dominating the scene while a winged female hero struggles above him and a red-suited figure is caught in his tentacle's grip. In the foreground, Robotman's golden mechanical body sinks helplessly into a swamp, his speech bubble lamenting that he can't save his teammates — a nicely dramatic touch that Bob Brown's cover art sells with real conviction. Arnold Drake's writing and Bruno Premiani's interior art bring "The World's Strangest Heroes" to this opening chapter of "The Menace of the Turnabout Heroes," and at 12 cents it was a terrific deal for fans who loved their superhero action with a generous dose of the bizarre.