Marvel Tales #115

Marvel Tales #115 brings one of Spider-Man's more unsettling adversaries back into the spotlight with a cover that immediately sets the stakes. A massive, looming pink head — the Mindworm — dominates the background, commanding a mob of hypnotized civilians to swarm a visibly strained Spider-Man, whose own word balloon makes his agonizing dilemma clear: he can't bring himself to hurt innocent people even as they crush him. Gil Kane's pencils and John Romita's inks give the scene terrific energy, reprinting Gerry Conway and Ross Andru's original tale, "Madness Means…the Mindworm!" for a new generation of readers at a very reasonable 40 cents.