Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #15

The cover of this 2007 finale chapter of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane tells its own quiet story: a hand holds up a photograph of a bespectacled young man with an uncertain expression, surrounded by a scattered pile of snapshots capturing Spider-Man in various poses across the city — swinging, crouching, perching on buildings — like memories being sorted through one last time. Cover art by Takeshi Miyazawa and Norman Lee gives the whole image a bittersweet, scrapbook intimacy that perfectly suits a series always more concerned with the heart than the heroics. Sean McKeever's "The Goodbye Thing" promises exactly the kind of emotionally resonant send-off this beloved series has earned.