Conan the Adventurer #12

Conan the Adventurer #12 pits Marvel's mighty Cimmerian against something truly unsettling — the cover by Rafael Kayanan and John Floyd fills nearly every inch with writhing, fanged serpents coiling around Conan's grimly determined face as he struggles to keep their snapping jaws at bay, with a sword gleaming above the chaos. The story title "The Abominations of Yondo" promises exactly the kind of sorcery-soaked peril that Roy Thomas, artist Rafael Kayanan, and inker John Floyd brought to Conan's world throughout this 1995 series. If serpentine menace and a barbarian fighting against overwhelming odds sounds like your kind of afternoon, this issue makes a vivid case for itself right on the cover.