Ka-Zar the Savage #27

This August 1983 issue of Ka-Zar the Savage delivers a cover that crackles with desperate, primordial energy — Ka-Zar strains against the coils of a massive green serpent, dagger raised high, while his saber-toothed companion Zabu snarls ferociously nearby and a wide-eyed woman looks on in alarm, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers against a brooding purple sky. Armando Gil's cover art handles both pencils and inks, and the result is a beautifully raw composition that captures the Lord of the Savage Land at his most embattled. With Bruce Jones scripting "Twisted Corridors," this issue is a fine example of the series at full adventure-comic stride.