Conan #19

The cover sets the mood beautifully: a muscular, dark-haired Conan raises his sword defiantly against a massive tentacled creature, its enormous glowing eye looming behind him, while the towers of an ancient temple city crown the top of the image. Fred Van Lente, Guiu Vilanova, Brian Ching, and Michael Atiyeh bring Robert E. Howard's world of sword and sorcery to vivid life in this 2016 Dark Horse volume collecting the Xuthal of the Dusk arc. It's a handsome package for fans who love their Hyborian Age adventures steeped in eerie atmosphere and genuine peril.