Superman #658

Superman's face dominates this striking January 2007 cover — cracked like scorched earth, his piercing blue eyes blazing through the devastation as he strains with outstretched hands against a backdrop of fire and ruin, perfectly capturing the ominous story title "The Day the Earth Died." Kurt Busiek's script, brought to life by Carlos Pacheco's pencils and Jesús Merino's inks, promises a Superman pushed to his absolute limits in "The Last Tomorrow." It's a visually arresting issue that wastes no time signaling the weight of what the Man of Steel is up against.