Catwoman #49

The tagline "Won't you come into my parlor…" says it all — this September 1997 issue of Catwoman drops Selina Kyle squarely into a spider's trap, as the cover shows her tangled and bound in a massive web alongside a menacing green-skinned villainess who looms over her with a gleeful, predatory grin. Jim Balent's cover art crackles with tension, the web's jagged lines radiating outward to frame the two figures in a genuinely unsettling showdown. With Doug Moench scripting "The Great S.P.I.D.E.R. Web Shred," this issue promises exactly the kind of stylish, high-stakes trouble that made this era of Catwoman so much fun.