Amazing Spider-Man #801

A fitting send-off to Dan Slott's long run on the wall-crawler, this 2018 issue pairs him with the elegant linework of Marcos Martín and Muntsa Vicente's restrained color palette for something genuinely moving before a single page is turned. Martín's cover says it all with quiet power: Spider-Man soars across a bold red field, his shadow stretching wide below him to shelter a vast crowd of ordinary people — dozens of everyday New Yorkers walking together beneath his outstretched form. It's a beautiful distillation of what the character means, framing him not as a fighter but as a protector, looming large over the lives he quietly keeps safe.