Conan Saga #22

Conan Saga #22 brings Roy Thomas's adaptation of "Hour of the Dragon" to Marvel's magazine format, and Bill Sienkiewicz's painted cover sets the mood perfectly — a massively muscled Conan dominates the foreground, horned helmet gleaming and battle-axe raised, while a crowd of robed, masked figures looms ominously in the shadowy background. The moonlit atmosphere and Sienkiewicz's painterly textures give the whole image a brooding, almost cinematic weight that feels a cut above standard comics fare. Interior art from Gil Kane, inked by Tom Sutton and lettered by Gaspar Saladino, promises the same energy that made this run essential reading for sword-and-sorcery fans in 1989.