The Amazing Spider-Man #25 (989)

Five issues into the nine-part "Death Spiral" arc, this oversized chapter throws Spider-Man into a rooftop maelstrom that Ed McGuinness renders with his signature kinetic energy — the web-slinger airborne and outnumbered against a massive pale symbiote figure and a dark, lightning-bolt-marked combatant, while a snarling red symbiote creature lunges from the left. Writer Joe Kelly and McGuinness are deep in the kind of escalating chaos these milestone issues were made for, with Marcio Menyz and Cliff Rathburn's colors and inks giving the nighttime cityscape a fiery, electric charge. At legacy number 989, this 2026 landmark is the rare big-number issue that earns its page count.