The New Teen Titans #14

The cover of this December 1981 issue crackles with emotional tension as a green-skinned young hero — pleading "Mento — don't do this! You're my father! How can you try to murder my best friends?!" — faces off against the powerful, halo-lit figure of Mento, who appears to be unleashing a devastating psychic assault on what looks like the assembled New Teen Titans, rendered in ghostly blue. Cover art by George Pérez and Dick Giordano frames the confrontation with jagged lightning and urgent energy, perfectly capturing the Doom Patrol revenge saga that the cover promises is still very much in motion. With Marv Wolfman and George Pérez steering the interior, this is the kind of father-versus-found-family conflict that made The New Teen Titans one of DC's most compelling team books of 1981.