Peter Parker: Spider-Man #26

This clever cover for Peter Parker: Spider-Man #26 tells its story entirely through a detective's cluttered desk — photographs of Spider-Man in action, a loaded revolver with spent shell casings, an NYPD coffee mug, scattered notes referencing the Green Goblin, and a magnifying glass hovering over Spidey's masked face as if he's the subject of an active investigation. Cover pencils by Joe Bennett and inks by Mark Pennington pack an impressive amount of moody, noir-tinged detail into every corner of the composition. With a "Police Story" premise and this kind of atmospheric setup, issue #26 makes a genuinely compelling case for what happens when New York's finest turn their attention toward the web-slinger.