Tom Strong #22

The banner promises "A Tom Stone Shocker!" and Jerry Ordway's interior art — alongside Alan Moore's writing — delivers the emotional weight to back it up in this December 2003 issue from America's Best Comics. Chris Sprouse and Karl Story's cover captures a solemn, glowing Tom Stone cradling a limp, costumed figure, surrounded on all sides by a vast crowd of heroes, villains, and strange beings watching in hushed witness. It's a striking, elegiac image that makes "Crisis in Infinite Hearts" feel every bit as momentous as its title suggests.