The Spectacular Spider-Man #141

The cover tagline says it all — "Don't Mess with the Punisher" — and Sal Buscema's art delivers on that promise with Frank Castle at the center of a blazing red composition, hurling green-clad thugs in every direction while more pile up at his feet, weapons scattering everywhere. It's a wonderfully kinetic 1988 Marvel cover that puts the skull-chested vigilante front and center, even on a Spider-Man title. Gerry Conway's "The Tombstone Testament!" promises the kind of street-level tension that made this era of Spectacular Spider-Man so compelling.