The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection #25

Part of Hachette's Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection, this 2013 hardcover edition (Issue 33) presents Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Spider-Man: Blue in a beautifully produced volume. Tim Sale's cover art is immediately striking — a cool, pale blue palette frames the elegant, stylized face of Gwen Stacy looming large above a small, crouching Spider-Man, the contrast in scale giving the image a quiet emotional weight. Sale handles every visual element here, from pencils to inks to color, and the result is a cover that feels more like fine art than a standard superhero collection.