Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Alpha #1

The Alpha chapter of Marvel's 1995 Maximum Clonage crossover event opens with a cover that viscerally captures the saga's central chaos: a boldly colored Spider-Man leaps forward from a swirling mass of ghostly, blue-tinted Spider-Man duplicates stretching endlessly behind him, chain links tangled in their midst. Ron Lim's pencils and Terry Austin's inks give the central figure a kinetic, urgent energy that makes the surrounding clones feel genuinely unsettling rather than merely decorative. With Tom DeFalco and Todd DeZago on script duties and Ron Lim handling interior art as well, this oversized issue promises a story as densely layered as its striking holographic-effect cover suggests.