Superman #193

Two caped figures in Superman's colors clash in mid-air against a blinding, sun-like explosion, with a devastated cityscape crumbling far below — it's a striking cover by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens that radiates both scale and urgency. The bold tagline "Death to Tomorrow!" promises high stakes as Steven T. Seagle's "Patronymic" two-parter comes to a close. This July 2003 issue wraps up what looks to be a confrontation of Kryptonian proportions, rendered in a searing palette of orange and red that gives the whole cover an almost solar intensity.