Toxic Crusaders #2

Marvel's "environmentally informed and hideously deformed" team gets a showcase in Toxic Crusaders #2 (1992), with a Sam Kieth cover that puts a massive, grotesquely muscular green mutant front and center — bulging, cracked hide, a dangling eyeball, and a mouth full of jagged teeth as he tears through a tree trunk. That speech bubble declaring "It's Clean-Up Time!" perfectly captures the series' mix of ecological earnestness and gleeful gross-out energy. Inside, the creative team of Hilary Barta, Doug Rice, Joe Staton, and Fred Fredericks takes on "The Big Broadcast of 1992" — promising another wild ride from this cheerfully mutated corner of the Marvel universe.