Spider-Man Noir #4

The concluding chapter of Marvel's 2009 Depression-era noir miniseries arrives with a striking Patrick Zircher cover: a grim-faced Spider-Man in his dark, goggled costume crouches defeated on the ground while a suited, sleeves-rolled figure stands over him against a web-patterned backdrop, capturing the series' hard-boiled tension perfectly. Writers David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky, with Carmine Di Giandomenico handling art and colors, have crafted a shadow-drenched reimagining of the Spider-Man mythos set against 1930s grit and desperation. As the fourth and final issue, this one promises the kind of bleak, pulpy payoff that made this noir take on Marvel's wall-crawler such a compelling departure from the main universe.