Conan Saga #57

This December 1991 Marvel reprint magazine delivers "The Scarlet Citadel" as a full-length action thriller, and the cover by Nestor Redondo sets the mood beautifully — a muscular, helmeted Conan thrusts his sword upward against a massive, snarling green creature whose enormous clawed hand reaches down from above, while a dark-haired woman in white lies vulnerable below them both. Roy Thomas writes and Frank Brunner illustrates the interior, promising the kind of sword-and-sorcery storytelling that made this series a staple of Hyborian adventure.