Spider-Man #61

Part four of the six-part "Maximum Clonage" saga arrives in this August 1995 Marvel thriller, and Tom Lyle's cover makes the premise impossible to miss — a sea of Spider-Man clones fills every inch of the image, with two costumed Spider-figures in the foreground (one in the classic red-and-blue, another in a dark variant suit) surging forward from an overwhelming mass of identical webbed faces and bodies. The tagline "A Thousand Clones!" says it all, capturing the sheer, unsettling scale of what Peter Parker is up against. With Howard Mackie writing and Lyle handling both pencils and inks on the interior, this chapter — subtitled "Heading Toward Omega" — promises the clone crisis is only building toward something bigger.