Red Sonja / Conan #3

Red Sonja and Conan stand shoulder to shoulder on this cover by Ed Benes, weapons raised and teeth gritted as they face a horde of glowing-eyed skeletal creatures — with a robed sorcerer looming ominously above them, arms spread wide and wreathed in ghostly green energy. The sheer scale of the threat surrounding this barbarian duo gives the image a genuinely dramatic charge. Writer Victor Gischler and artist Roberto Castro's 2015 crossover series continues to deliver the kind of sword-and-sorcery spectacle these two characters were made for.