Conan the Barbarian #32

Gil Kane and Ernie Chan deliver a genuinely thrilling underwater scene for this November 1973 issue — Conan, knife in hand, struggles against a massive tentacled creature while a long-haired woman is caught in its writhing grip, a skeleton lurking ominously in the weeds below. The cover's tagline, "Man Battles Monster in a Watery Grave!", says it all, and the teal-and-green depths give the whole image an eerie, suffocating tension. "Flame Winds of Lost Khitai!" promises adventure in the mysterious eastern realm of Khitai, making this a satisfying chapter in Marvel's early-'70s Conan run.