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All the big players are there, slugging it out against their opposite numbers. I laugh to see Superman sooo tiny in the background! But, he's going against The Hulk, which makes sense. To draw like this you have to have a gymnast's mind in your head, as well as a fairly comfortable relationship to anatomy...
... but would you believe that artists have been wrestling with this problem of 'action scenes' since the 1500s in Italy?
Take a look at Michelangelo Buonarroti the painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling (which he did in 4 years!). If you look at the 'supporting character' scenes on the walls of the Chapel from The Bible, you get a great sense that he too thought out how to show the human body in a massive heroic scale:
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