Kull the Conqueror #3

This December 1983 Marvel issue puts Robert E. Howard's barbarian king front and center in striking fashion — cover artist Michael Golden paints Kull crowned and red-caped, sword raised defiantly as he stands atop a crumbling stone figure, surrounded on all sides by a luminous green horde of spectral, decaying figures pressing in from the mist. The title "Dead Men of the Deep" promises exactly the kind of supernatural menace the cover delivers, with those eerie undead forms giving the whole image an unsettling, otherworldly atmosphere. With Alan Zelenetz scripting and John Buscema illustrating the interior, this is sword-and-sorcery storytelling firing on all cylinders.