Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis #4

This 2013 Marvel hardcover collects more of Brian Michael Bendis's run on Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, with interior art by David Marquez and a striking cover by Sara Pichelli that sets the tone perfectly. The cover depicts Miles Morales in his black-and-red Spider-Man suit perched atop an enormous, snarling Venom symbiote creature, tendrils coiling upward around the hero in a tense, visually arresting composition. It's a bold, atmospheric image that captures the higher stakes Miles faces in the Ultimate Universe, making this volume hard to put back on the shelf.