Marvel Tales #129

This 1981 reprint showcase puts Spider-Man in serious peril, with the cover by Gil Kane and John Romita depicting a dramatically foreshortened Spidey tumbling headlong toward a set of massive whirling dynamo blades while the quilted-suited Shocker looms in the background, taunting him. The cover copy — "Shattered by the Shocker!" — perfectly captures the threat on display, with caption boxes teasing that one wrong move means goodbye for our wall-crawler. Inside, Len Wein's story with art by Ross Andru and inks by Mike Esposito delivers the full showdown between Marvel's favorite web-slinger and one of his most relentless foes.