Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection #26

This Marvel Epic Collection gathers a thrilling stretch of *Amazing Spider-Man* stories under the subtitle "Lifetheft," brought together with cover art by Mark Bagley and Larry Mahlstedt that wastes no time signaling the chaos inside. Spider-Man lunges forward at the center of a genuinely intimidating rogues' gallery — Carnage looming in red and black above, Venom crouching menacingly below, and a cast of additional villains (including what appear to be Doctor Octopus's mechanical tentacles and a snarling, yellow-suited foe) crowding every edge of the frame. With writing from Michelinie and DeMatteis alongside Bagley's kinetic linework, this 2021 collection is a fine way to revisit early-'90s Spidey at his most surrounded and scrappy.