The Amazing Spider-Man #509

Spider-Man swings toward the viewer in a dramatic low-angle shot, his figure entangled — and seemingly multiplied — in thick, twisting ropes or cables, with a second web-slinger visible in the upper background against the Manhattan skyline far below. Mike Deodato's cover work is kinetic and unsettling, the coiled restraints suggesting that whatever is coming in "Sins Past" won't let Peter Parker break free easily. J. Michael Straczynski kicks off this story arc in 2004 with the kind of moody, foreboding energy that makes you want to flip straight to page one.