Tom Strong #21

Titled "The Strongmen Take Over!" right on the cover, this October 2003 installment of Alan Moore's Tom Strong promises an epic clash between Tom Stone and America's Best, and the cover by penciler Chris Sprouse and inker Karl Story delivers the excitement in full. A sprawling cast of colorful figures — a sword-wielding man in red, a hulking blue bruiser, a figure in sleek black, a woman in a white costume, a green-clad character, and more — clash and scramble across an urban steel scaffolding high above a city skyline. With Jerry Ordway on interior art and the tagline boasting "a galaxy of the world's most thrilling guest stars," this issue looks like a genuinely fun, jam-packed superhero throwdown.