10 Most Intense Comic Books Of All Time
2. Crisis On Infinite Earths #7
The DC Universe can be divided up into two separate parts: the Pre-Crisis Universe and the Post-Crisis one. Before the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event launched in 1985, DC was flush with multiverses, alternate versions of everyone, and more confusion than they knew what do to with.
The answer was the Crisis crossover event, which resulted in the deletion of every alternate universe save for the Antimatter Universe. Whole storylines and power-sets were wiped out in a way that helped clean things up and make the continuity of DC's many characters easier to understand.
The seventh issue of the series was probably the most intense, but much of that intensity derived from the cover illustrated by George Perez. Superman is shown holding the body of his cousin, Kara Zor-El, otherwise known as Supergirl.
Nobody saw this death coming and that apparently included the Last Son of Krypton. Within the pages of the book, Supergirl continuously threw herself against the Anti-Monitor again and again. It was brutal and beautifully illustrated in such a way as to convey the intensity of her sacrifice making this one of the most important issues in the entirety of DC's publishing history.