Venom: The Hunted #2

The second chapter of "The Stalking" puts Venom front and center in all his monstrous glory — fangs bared, tongue lashing, symbiote tendrils crackling as he lunges straight off the cover. Duncan Rouleau's cover art packs in a wild supporting cast of confused cops, attack choppers, a female symbiote, skateboarders, and carnivorous aliens, making good on the cover's own cheerful boast that "this one has it all." With Larry Hama scripting and Rouleau handling both pencils and inks on interiors, this 1996 limited series delivers the kind of sprawling, action-packed Venom chaos that mid-nineties Marvel fans were absolutely here for.