Superman: The Man of Steel #19

This January 1993 issue drops readers into the thick of "Doomsday Is Here!" with a cover by Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke that is genuinely hard to look away from — Superman's battered, bloodied face fills the foreground, gritting his teeth as the massive, bone-spiked fist of Doomsday bears down on him in a terrifyingly close-quarters confrontation. The raw physicality on display makes it immediately clear that the Man of Steel is being pushed to his absolute limits. Louise Simonson and Bogdanove deliver part six of "The Death of Superman" with the kind of visceral urgency that made this arc one of the most talked-about stories of its era.