The Amazing Spider-Man #1

The 1999 relaunch of The Amazing Spider-Man announces itself boldly with a bright yellow, web-filled cover by John Byrne, featuring Spider-Man lunging dynamically toward the reader against an enormous spiderweb backdrop. Surrounding him in the web are six portrait-style faces — a young dark-haired man, a wide-eyed red-haired woman, an older white-haired woman, a stern man with a cigarette, a middle-aged Black man, and a distressed younger woman — hinting at the cast of characters woven into Peter Parker's world. Writer Howard Mackie and artist John Byrne promise a fresh chapter for the wall-crawler, and the cover's tagline, "The Legend Reborn!", sets an appropriately ambitious tone for this first spectacular issue.