Venom: Carnage Unleashed #2

Venom stands defiant at the center of this striking 1995 cover, surrounded on all sides by multiple incarnations of the red-and-black nightmare that is Carnage — claws reaching, fangs bared, closing in from every direction. Andrew Wildman's cover art captures the overwhelming odds stacked against the black-suited symbiote with impressive energy and a real sense of menace. Part two of four in the "Carnage Unleashed" storyline, this issue promises the kind of brutal, high-stakes confrontation that made Venom one of Marvel's most compelling antiheroes of the era.