Conan the Barbarian #47

Gil Kane and Tom Palmer deliver a fierce cover for this February 1975 issue, showing Conan mid-swing with a massive sword as he battles a swarming horde of goblins — grotesque, hulking creatures pressing in from every angle while a dark-haired woman scrambles to safety behind him amid crumbling purple columns. The headline "The Goblins Strike at Midnight!" sets a suitably menacing tone for Roy Thomas's script, brought to life inside by John Buscema and Dan Adkins. It's a vivid snapshot of everything that made Marvel's Hyborian Age adventures so compelling in the mid-1970s.