Conan the Barbarian #273

Cover artist Colin MacNeil delivers a striking image for this October 1993 installment: a heavily armed, shadow-faced Conan charges forward laden with swords, axes, a quiver of arrows, and ornate skull-adorned gear, with broken chains and scattered skulls strewn at his feet beneath a dramatic dusk sky. The bold tagline "Conan the Punisher" sets an unmistakably grim, weapon-heavy tone for "The Lords of the Lotus," the interior story crafted by writer Roy Thomas and artist Mike Docherty. It's a raw, momentum-filled cover that promises the Cimmerian at his most relentlessly formidable.