Superboy #99

The penultimate chapter of "World Without Superboy" arrives in issue #99, and the cover by penciler Humberto Ramos and inker Wayne Faucher makes an immediate impression — a hulking, bone-spiked creature unmistakably reminiscent of Doomsday crouches atop a shattered vehicle, while a red-haired young woman floats helplessly in the debris-strewn water below. Part Four of Five of "Doomsboy," this 2002 DC issue from writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Dan DiDio, with interior art by Anthony Williams and Walden Wong, delivers the kind of escalating tension that makes you reach for the next issue immediately.