High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Doomsday is a fictional character, a supervillain that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appears in Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (Nov. 1992) and was created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens. IGN`s list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Doomsday as #46. He is best known as the character who killed Superman.