The Brave and the Bold #11

The cover of this 2008 team-up issue says it all with a winking "This Is a Team-Up?" badge — because what's depicted is anything but friendly cooperation: a dark-costumed Ultraman looms triumphantly over a fallen Superman against a sweeping cosmic backdrop of planets and starfields. George Pérez's cover art crackles with tension, the contrast between the two super-powered figures suggesting that crossing universes doesn't always lead to easy alliances. With Mark Waid writing and Jerry Ordway on interior art, The Brave and the Bold #11 delivers the fifth chapter of "The Book of Destiny" with plenty of intrigue to spare.