Marvel Tales #72

Marvel Tales #72 brings a reprint of Stan Lee, Gil Kane, John Romita, and Sam Rosen's work to 1976 readers, spotlighting a Spider-Man pushed to his limits. John Romita's cover captures the tension vividly — Spider-Man swings into action above a rooftop crowd of agitated civilians, grappling with a green-suited figure while speech bubbles cry out that the whole city has turned against him. The issue promises the "murderous menace" of the Man Called Bullit, and that mob of onlookers pressing in from every side makes it easy to believe the web-slinger has never felt more alone.