Spider-Girl #77

Spider-Girl cuts a striking figure on this 2004 Marvel issue, rendered in a sleek black symbiote-style costume that catches the light with cool silver highlights against a pitch-dark background. Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema's cover work gives her a tense, coiled posture — web-shooter raised, spider emblem gleaming — that perfectly sets the mood for a story titled "A Taste for Treachery!" The DeFalco/Frenz/Buscema team was in fine form at issue #77, delivering a cover with real atmosphere and quiet menace.