Marvel Team-Up #4

Spider-Man and Man-Thing make for one of Marvel's more unexpected pairings, and this December 1997 issue leans into that strangeness with a cover — penciled by Darick Robertson and inked by Eric Cannon — that is genuinely unsettling. The massive, shambling Man-Thing looms over a dripping, apparently limp Spider-Man clutched in those monstrous hands, swamp water cascading from them both against a murky, foliage-choked backdrop. With Tom Peyer writing and Josh Hood on interior art, "Suspended Sentience" promises the kind of dark, atmospheric adventure that only the Nexus of All Realities can inspire.