Spider-Man #53

Part 4 of "The Exile Returns" arrives in December 1994 with a cover that promises everything its title delivers — the Scarlet Spider, clad in his distinctive blue hoodie, driving a symbiote-tendriled Venom crash-landing into rubble, with a battered blond figure sprawled helplessly below and Carnage lurking in the upper corner. Tom Lyle's cover art (pencils and inks) frames the confrontation with real kinetic force, smoke and debris flying as the cover itself boldly declares this "The Scarlet Spider's Greatest Moment of Glory… The Fall of Venom!" Writer Howard Mackie and artist Tom Lyle bring this four-part arc to a head in a series that was consistently delivering high-energy Spider-Man action throughout 1994.