Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24

Part 2 of the "One More Day" arc arrives with a cover by Joe Quesada and Danny Miki that packs in a remarkable amount of tension: Doctor Strange looms large at the center, his hands crackling with eerie red energy as an ominous message asks why he has dared summon the "Hands of Death," while Spider-Man swings urgently in the background and a fragile elderly figure lies stricken in the foreground with "a life hangs in the balance" blazoned across the scene. The old-school Marvel house-ad presentation — complete with breathless "True Believer" copy and a dare to flip open the cover — gives this 2007 issue an infectious sense of theatrical excitement. With Tom DeFalco writing and Ron Frenz on interior art, this is a chapter that clearly carries some serious emotional stakes alongside its supernatural spectacle.