Spider-Man: The Lost Hunt #1

Rain-soaked and brooding, Ryan Brown's cover for this 2023 Marvel special event sets an immediately unsettling tone — Spider-Man clings to a moss-covered Celtic cross in a graveyard while the imposing, bearded visage of Kraven the Hunter looms large above him, flanked by massive blades. J. M. DeMatteis, the writer behind this opening chapter titled "Haunted," teams here with artist Eder Messias and a full creative squad to bring what promises to be a dark, atmospheric confrontation between hunter and hunted. If the cover's stormy cemetery imagery is any indication, this is Spider-Man storytelling with genuine gothic weight.