The Worst Cover You've Never Seen--Man-Thing #11 (1981)

Even at their most cloyingly self-indulgent, DC's "Earth-Prime" stories never produced anything like this:

Danny Fingeroth earns a place in the Bad Cover Blurb Hall Of Fame here. The self-deprecating, faux-cursive "Oh pity me" captions, the needless shout-out to X-Men's popularity...man, the "hey, look at me" factor here is off the charts.

The cover is penciled and inked by Bob Wiacek, and none of this is his fault. It's a pretty good cover, until someone decided that, since it was the last issue, let's break that 4th wall in the most ridiculous and attention diverting way possible. Because it's funny when an editor detracts from a book in order to show off how "meta" he can be.

Yuck.