Conan the Barbarian #64

John Buscema and Mike Esposito pack this 1976 Marvel cover with raw, churning energy — Conan grapples bare-handed with a feathered warrior at the top of a stone stairway, while a dark-haired female fighter wields a blade beside him and a snarling serpentine beast looms from the shadows to the left. Below them, a mass of similarly adorned enemies swarms upward, spears and swords cutting through the chaos. Titled "Fiends of the Feathered Serpent," this issue promises Roy Thomas and John Jakes steering the Cimmerian into dangerous, mythic territory with the story "The Secret of Skull River!