Venom: Along Came a Spider #4

This 1996 Marvel limited series reaches its conclusion with a cover by penciler Joe St. Pierre and inker Mark McKenna that pulls no punches: Venom and Spider-Man are locked in a visceral, mid-air clash, with Venom's grotesque green-and-black maw erupting between them in a surge of symbiote matter. Flanking the central brawl in stark contrast are two civilian figures — a grim-faced older man and a wide-eyed woman — rendered in muted tones that highlight just how caught in the crossfire ordinary people can become. With Larry Hama scripting and a title borrowed from nursery-rhyme lore, Along Came a Spider wraps up with the kind of chaotic energy that made mid-90s Venom stories so compelling.