Spider-Man #1

Todd McFarlane launched his own Spider-Man series in 1990 with this ambitious first issue, kicking off the five-part "Torment" arc. His cover depicts Spider-Man lunging straight at the viewer in a dense tangle of intricately rendered webs, dozens of tiny spiders crawling across the background in an atmosphere that feels genuinely unsettling. It's a confident statement of intent — McFarlane handling writing, art, and inks throughout — and that subtitle, "The Legend of the Arachknight," hints at a story with real mythic ambition.