Marvel Tales #245

Spider-Man and Kitty Pryde make for an unlikely but energetic team in this 1991 reprint from Marvel's long-running anthology series. The cover by Marshall Rogers drops them deep underground, where Spider-Man lunges forward in full costume while a green-suited Kitty Pryde leaps into action behind him — all surrounded by the lurking, monstrous figures of the Morlocks, with the cover itself cheekily asking, "What is this? An underground comics convention?!" The interior story, "Deep Down in Darkness!", comes courtesy of writer Bill Mantlo, penciler Ron Frenz, and inker Mike Esposito, promising exactly the kind of subterranean tension that cover tagline — Down deep in the darkness lurk… Morlocks! — delivers on sight alone.