The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21

Few moments in Marvel's 1987 publishing year felt as genuinely celebratory as this Giant-Sized Annual, whose cover — penciled and inked by John Romita — says it all: Peter Parker in a sharp blue tuxedo and Mary Jane Watson in a sweeping white gown and veil beam at the reader, arm in arm, framed by an enormous Spider-Man mask rendered as a red heart. A warm gathering of family and friends fans out behind them on both sides, beaming with the kind of joy that makes the whole image feel like a real wedding portrait. Titled "The Special Wedding Issue," this oversized annual captures one of the most tender, human sides of the wall-crawler, trading web-slinging for rose-adorned ceremony.