Conan the Adventurer #11

The cover of this April 1995 Marvel issue says it all with that single word blazing in yellow: "Captured." Rafael Kayanan's cover art shows a powerfully muscular Conan straining against chains, wrists bound to a wooden crossbeam, his long dark hair wild and his expression fierce — yet a massive sword still cuts across the composition, suggesting his fighting spirit is far from broken. Below him, a helmeted warrior figure wearing golden armor crouches amid a tangle of serpentine shapes, making this a striking image of peril and defiance for "The Inquisitors of Ong.