Venom: Lethal Protector #5

Part five of six in this landmark 1993 limited series, and the cover by Mark Bagley and Sam de la Rosa raises the stakes considerably — a snarling, fanged Venom charges forward while Spider-Man swings into the fray above him, both surrounded by the coiling tendrils of five new symbiotes closing in from every direction. The cover copy asks point-blank whether even Spider-Man can help beat the odds, and with crimson, orange, and green symbiotic appendages pressing in on all sides, it's a genuinely tense visual proposition. With David Michelinie writing and Ron Lim on interior art, "Symbiocide" promises one of the series' most chaotic and symbiote-saturated chapters yet.