Marvel Tales #216

Marvel Tales #216 pairs Spider-Man with the Punisher for a tense rooftop encounter, and Mike Zeck's cover captures the friction perfectly — the skull-chested Punisher charges forward gripping a rifle while Spider-Man crawls in from the right, the two heroes clearly at odds above a city street where an armed figure looms below. The cover teases "The Hitman's Back In Town!" with a pointed note that J. Jonah Jameson is involved, promising a story with real stakes for both wall-crawler and vigilante. It's a sharp 1988 snapshot of two very different Marvel heroes sharing uneasy ground.