Sword of Sorcery #1

DC's 1973 launch of Sword of Sorcery brings Fritz Leiber's beloved duo — Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser — to four-color life, with Michael Wm. Kaluta's cover painting a thrilling scene of the two heroes battling a horde of green-skinned creatures on a precarious bridge or drawbridge, skulls strewn at their feet and crumbling castle walls looming behind them. Fafhrd charges with sword raised while the nimbler Mouser swings acrobatically into the fray, perfectly capturing the complementary dynamic that made Leiber's characters so enduring. With Howard Chaykin handling interior art and Denny O'Neil co-writing "The Price of Pain Ease," this first issue promises the sword-and-sorcery thrills the cover so vividly delivers.