The Spectacular Spider-Man #195

Part 2 of "The Death of Vermin" arrives in this December 1992 issue of The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Sal Buscema's cover makes an immediate impression — a writhing, nightmarish pile of grotesque creatures crowds every inch of the image, with a tiny Spider-Man visible in the background, dwarfed by the overwhelming mass of monstrous forms. It's a deliberately unsettling composition that captures the horror-tinged tone of this storyline beautifully. If you've been following J. M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema's run, "Masquerade" looks like exactly the kind of psychologically charged chapter you won't want to skip.