Beowulf #3

DC's sword-and-sorcery take on the legendary Anglo-Saxon hero charges into its third issue with a cover by Ricardo Villamonte that puts the stakes front and center: Beowulf himself is locked in a desperate, bare-handed struggle against an enormous serpent — jaws wide, fangs bared — while a blonde warrior woman named Nan-Zee watches helplessly from below, sword in hand, as skulls litter the ground around them. The tagline says it all: "Nobody can help Beowulf as he battles… the Serpent of Satan!" With writer Michael Uslan and artist Villamonte collaborating on the interior story "Man-Apes and Magic!", this 1975 issue delivers the kind of mythic, pulpy adventure that made DC's "Line of Super-Stars" banner feel genuinely exciting.