Spider-Man 2099 #41

Peter David's futuristic web-slinger faces a genuinely frightening threat in this 1996 installment of the long-running Marvel 2099 series. The cover by Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville puts Spider-Man 2099 at a harrowing disadvantage — his blue-and-red suit shredded, he tumbles backward through collapsing urban rubble while a green, whip-like Goblin figure looms menacingly overhead against a stormy purple sky. With the bold cover declaration "The Goblin's Gonna Get You!" and a story titled "Despair," issue #41 promises the kind of high-stakes, down-to-the-wire tension that made this series a standout corner of Marvel's vision of tomorrow.