Spider-Man #70

Spider-Man #70 poses a question right on the cover that New York's underworld clearly can't ignore: "Who is the New Crimelord of New York?" John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson deliver a striking image of Spider-Man tangled in puppet strings, looming over two suited men — one recoiling in alarm, the other crumpled beneath him — while an enormous pair of bandaged hands loom ominously from above, pulling the strings of the whole city. Howard Mackie's "Above it All" looks to be a tense, street-level thriller that puts the wall-crawler right at the center of a dangerous power struggle in the Marvel New York of 1996.