Let's turn back the clock nearly three decades to 1992.the year that Superman died. Not forever, of course, but you know where we're going with this. The Man of Steel's tragic demise at the hands of Doomsday (a villain specifically engineered by five different creatives to take out the Last Son of Krypton) in the pages of Superman #75 shocked the world and sparked a buying frenzy among die-hard comic fans and casual readers alike.