Conan the Barbarian #259

Conan hurls himself across a storm-battered mountainside on this striking 1992 cover — sword in one hand, a massive jeweled cube raised in the other — while ghostly, anguished faces swirl through the icy blue chaos around him, hinting at supernatural forces far beyond mortal reckoning. The cover tagline "Mayhem on the Mountain!" says it all, and the imagery delivers: cover pencils by Mike Docherty and inks by Fraja Bator give the scene a raw, kinetic energy that suits the Hyborian Age perfectly. Part eight of nine in the "Second Coming of Shuma-Gorath" saga, this penultimate chapter promises the kind of sword-and-sorcery tension that made Roy Thomas's run on Conan the Barbarian a cornerstone of Marvel's fantasy offerings.