Conan Saga #85

Promising "Barbaric Adventure Along the Black Coast," this April 1994 Marvel digest brings together Conan, Red Sonja, and Bêlit for a seafaring tale that spans the sword-and-sorcery spectrum. Doug Beekman's painted cover captures the muscular Cimmerian surging through churning surf beside a massive wooden vessel, sword in hand as he carries a woman through the crashing waves — all rendered in vivid golds and oceanic blues. Inside, Roy Thomas scripts and John Buscema pencils "Fiends of the Feathered Serpent!" — a creative team that knew how to make the Hyborian Age feel genuinely alive.