Conan the Barbarian #79

Conan surges forward axe raised, daring the "Dogs of Stygia" to challenge him as he vows to guard the glowing, otherworldly Eye of the Serpent-God Set — that vast, eerie orb dominating the crimson sky above a gleaming lost city — with his very life, while a blonde warrior woman stands her ground behind him. John Buscema's pencils and Ernie Chan's inks make every muscle and shadow count, giving this October 1977 issue a raw, mythic energy that pulls you straight into the Hyborian Age. With Roy Thomas's story "The Lost Valley of Iskander" promising ancient sorcery and Stygian peril, this is sword-and-sorcery storytelling firing on all cylinders.