The Prisoner #4

DC's adaptation of the celebrated British series reaches its fourth and final chapter with this striking 1989 closer, "Book D: Departure." Dean Motter's cover art — rendered entirely by his own pencils and inks — tears open like worn paper to reveal a determined young man shielding his eyes and pressing forward, while a looming, eerily lit face stares down from the background, suggesting the ever-present scrutiny that defines The Village. The penny-farthing bicycle emblem in the corner quietly anchors the whole image to that surreal world of control and resistance.