The Spectacular Spider-Man #57

Frank Miller's cover for issue #57 promises something genuinely unexpected — a furious J. Jonah Jameson, fists clenched in a formal suit, seated amid massive mechanical arms and firing cannons, while Spider-Man swings in against a stark white moon backdrop. The cover dialogue makes Jameson's personal stakes unmistakably clear: "You've kidnapped the woman I love…you've destroyed everything I hold dear — and I'll make you pay!" True to the teaser at the bottom, this August 1981 issue pledges "a decidedly different side of J. Jonah Jameson," and with a creative team including Roger Stern and Jim Mooney inside, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man delivers a story that looks anything but ordinary.