Spider-Girl #5

Venom crashes into Spider-Girl's world in issue #5, and the cover makes the threat impossible to ignore — that massive, slobbering maw dominates the foreground while Spider-Girl appears twice in the background, caught in a startled, wide-eyed double image as the symbiote announces its return with a garbled "I'm Baaa-ackkk!" The banner teasing "Guess who becomes his new host!" adds a genuinely unsettling wrinkle to the tension Patrick Olliffe and Al Williamson have built into every inked line. For fans following "the daughter of the true Spider-Man" through her early adventures, this 1999 installment promises one of her most menacing challenges yet.