Conan the Barbarian #138

Issue #138 of Marvel's long-running sword-and-sorcery series finds Conan sword in hand, charging through a chaotic pit swarming with bizarre, multicolored creatures — a massive yellow serpentine beast, smaller feral monsters, and a hulking orange predator closing in from the right. Hanging upside-down from chains in the background is a bound captive, lending the scene an urgent sense of stakes that perfectly suits the issue's title, "Isle of the Dead." John Buscema's cover art, both penciled and inked by the master himself, delivers a dense, kinetic composition that showcases everything fans of 1982 Marvel fantasy could want.