The Amazing Spider-Man #22

John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna deliver a gripping cover for this 2000 chapter of The Amazing Spider-Man, depicting the web-slinger caught in a tangle of dark, tendril-like appendages alongside a black-costumed figure, both struggling against what appears to be a massive, looming symbiote-like threat. The red-and-blue suit is rendered in Romita Jr.'s signature dynamic style, all sharp angles and kinetic tension, as Spider-Man fights to break free from the writhing, red-dotted strands. With Howard Mackie's "The Distinguished Gentleman from New York Part One" kicking off a new story arc, this issue promises the kind of street-level Marvel drama that made this creative team so compelling in 2000.