Untold Tales of Spider-Man #17

A rooftop showdown crackles with tension on this January 1997 cover by Pat Olliffe and Greg Adams: Hawkeye the Marksman stands in the background, bow drawn and arrow trained directly at a wide-eyed Spider-Man, who scrambles across the foreground with a shaft already cutting past him — all set against a stormy city skyline lit by jagged red lightning. Kurt Busiek's Untold Tales of Spider-Man consistently found fresh angles on Marvel's classic era, and pitting the wall-crawler against a sharp-shooting archer makes for a genuinely compelling visual matchup. At just 99 cents, this issue delivers that signature series charm with some real rooftop menace to spare.