Venom: Sign of the Boss #1

Venom is front and center on this September 1997 Marvel one-shot, teeth bared and symbiote-clad, squaring off against a larger, monstrous opponent while a dark-haired figure looms behind them — and the cover copy makes his intentions perfectly clear: "Let him go, or — YOU!" Tom Derenick and Chris Ivy deliver a kinetic, hard-hitting cover that captures Venom at his most confrontational, all coiled menace and white spider emblem. "Sign of the Boss" kicks off with the kind of high-stakes standoff that reminds you exactly why Eddie Brock's alter ego makes such a compelling antihero.