Spider-Man: Funeral for an Octopus #1

Even with Doctor Octopus dead and buried — his gravestone bearing the name "Otto Octavius" right there on the cover — Spider-Man is clearly far from finished, as Ron Lim and Al Milgrom depict two versions of the wall-crawler ensnared and hurled about by a tangle of menacing mechanical tentacles still very much in motion. The cover's promise that "his legacy of terror lives on" sets a compelling tone for this 1995 three-issue miniseries, written by Tom Brevoort and Mike Kanterovich with interior art by Stewart Johnson and Al Milgrom. It's a genuinely intriguing premise — what does a Spider-Man story look like when the villain is already gone before page one?