Conan Classic #11

A massive spider's web dominates the cover of this 1995 Marvel reprint series installment, with Conan — sword in hand, an arrow grazing his powerful frame — struggling against its sticky strands while a crowd of grim, grey-toned figures watches from below. Barry Windsor-Smith's cover pencils and inks deliver the Cimmerian's raw physicality with unmistakable craft, all set against that chilling tagline: "Web of the Spider-God!" With a story by John Jakes and Roy Thomas brought to life through Barry Smith's interior art, this is sword-and-sorcery storytelling in fine form.