Untold Tales of Spider-Man #13

Few covers in 1996 struck an emotional chord quite like this one — Spider-Man crouched alone in a moonlit cemetery, head bowed in grief, a small bouquet of pink roses laid against a shadowed gravestone while autumn leaves drift past in the cool night air. Pat Olliffe and Al Vey craft a haunting, quietly powerful image that trades action for raw feeling, letting the wall-crawler's hunched posture say everything words don't need to. Kurt Busiek's "Without Warning" promises the kind of deeply personal storytelling that made Untold Tales of Spider-Man such a compelling corner of the Marvel universe — and at just 99 cents, it's one of the great bargains in comics.