Kull, the Destroyer #29

Ernie Chan's striking 1978 cover for Kull the Destroyer #29 pits the muscular, axe-wielding Kull against the skeletal sorcerer Thulsa Doom, the two locked in fierce combat above a sea of fallen bodies rendered in vivid red. The cover teases "Is This Kull's Last Battle?" — a pointed question that gives this showdown genuine weight — as both figures dominate a star-filled void that makes the clash feel truly cosmic in scale. Fans of Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery world will find plenty to savor here, with the interior brought to life by writer Don Glut and artists Ernie Chan and Ricardo Villamonte in "To Sit the Topaz Throne!