The Outsiders #6

From the cover by Jim Aparo, a sinister figure in a red jacket and distinctive yellow hat — the Duke of Oil — gestures triumphantly at a large monitor showing the Outsiders caught in a chaotic brawl amid tangled machinery and debris inside their own headquarters. Looming beside him is a bound, rope-wrapped figure watching the mayhem unfold with grim concern. Writer Mike W. Barr sets up a deliciously devious premise — a villain who turns a team's home turf into their greatest threat — and it's exactly the kind of pulpy, high-stakes hook that made mid-1980s DC superhero comics so much fun.