Conan the Barbarian #62

Death in the Land of Dagon!" announces this May 1976 entry in Marvel's long-running Hyborian epic, with cover art by Gil Kane and John Romita that wastes no time setting a ferocious tone. Conan is shown mid-battle, driving his blade into a massive horned beast while a glowing skull with red eyes looms ominously in the background, and a second figure — bound by ropes — crouches helplessly in the foreground. It's a cover that captures the sword-and-sorcery mood perfectly: raw physical danger meeting something far darker and more supernatural lurking just beyond the fight.