Marvel Feature #7

Marvel Feature #7 brings together two of the Hyborian Age's most formidable warriors for a confrontation the cover boldly promises was inevitable — Red Sonja, flame-haired and silver-mailed, her sword locked against that of a snarling, bare-chested Conan the Barbarian, both figures surrounded by skulls and eerie, serpentine shadows that set a fittingly grim stage. Frank Thorne's cover artwork crackles with kinetic energy, the crossed blades and fierce expressions of both combatants conveying genuine ferocity rather than mere posturing. Roy Thomas and Thorne team up inside for "The Battle of the Barbarians!" — and if the cover is any measure, 1976 Marvel was delivering sword-and-sorcery storytelling at its most electrifying.