Kull, the Conqueror #10

Marie Severin and John Severin deliver a visceral cover for this September 1973 issue, with King Kull locked in desperate combat against a massive, slavering beast-monster whose claws and fangs dwarf the warrior-king himself. A spear-wielding woman urges him to fight on while a robed figure crouches in the background, and Kull's defiant cry — "Then let me die — with sword in hand!" — sets the tone perfectly for a tale subtitled "Mind-Monsters of the Warrior Queen." Spinning from the same mythic tradition as Conan, this Gerry Conway–written adventure promises the kind of sword-and-sorcery spectacle that made Robert E. Howard's prehistoric worlds so irresistible.