The Amazing Spider-Man #270 (Marvel, 1985)

Plenty of reasons to love this amazing cover, starting with Spidey sporting his Black Costume front and center in one of his largest and most striking depictions from the costume's original run. He's wildly out of his weight class, unloading on Firelord, former Herald of Galactus, daring readers to watch him attempt the impossible. This is the second-earliest Black Costume The Amazing Spider-Man cover we've ever offered, and only the fifth overall from Issues #252-300, a stretch where these covers almost never surface. And as if that weren't enough, a lineup of concerned Avengers looks on from behind, including Captain America, Black Knight, Hercules, Wasp, and Starfox, in a clear homage to the classic The Avengers #96 Kree-Skrull War cover where the Vision famously lost his cool.