Kull, the Destroyer #27

Kull faces one of his most fearsome challenges yet in issue #27, as the cover — penciled by Ernie Chan and inked by Rudy Nebres — plunges us straight into a vivid clash with Gasshga, the horned, blue-furred Man-Monster from the World Below, who has Kull firmly in his massive grip. A red-clad woman with wild dark hair looms at Gasshga's side, taunting the former king with the chilling promise that here in her realm, he'll be nothing but a corpse. It's a striking 1978 snapshot of sword-and-sorcery tension, with Kull — axe in hand and refusing to yield — at the center of a supernatural confrontation that feels pulled straight from the Robert E. Howard tradition the series proudly carries forward.