Spider-Girl #39

Spider-Girl soars across a dizzying Manhattan skyline on the cover of issue #39, her red-and-blue costume vivid against the towering city backdrop as she dives in a dynamic free-fall pose that practically pulls you off the ground with her. The cover art by Udon captures May Parker's fearless, acrobatic spirit with real kinetic energy — this is a hero completely at home in the sky. With Tom DeFalco writing and Chris Batista on interior art, "Duty Calls!" looks like a worthy chapter in one of Marvel's most earnest and enjoyable series of 2001.