Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1

The cover of this 1991 four-part miniseries says it all with its bold tagline: "Alone they were defeated… but now they've joined forces!" Spider-Man lunges front and center, entangled in razor wire, while the Rhino looms massively to his right and the Beetle dives in from above — with Boomerang and the Leaper rounding out a coalition of classic Spidey villains all bearing down at once. Al Milgrom's cover art captures the overwhelming odds stacking up against our wall-crawler in a way that makes issue #2 feel immediately necessary.