Sword of Sorcery #5

DC's sword-and-sorcery series reaches its fifth issue with a cover by Walter Simonson that plunges Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser straight into maritime peril — a massive green sea creature has seized the red-haired Fafhrd in its coiling tentacles, hoisting him skyward while the cloaked Gray Mouser clings to the listing hull of their small vessel amid churning waves. The cover promises that the duo will "risk all" in pursuit of "The Sunken Land," setting a tone of high-seas mythic adventure that suits Fritz Leiber's beloved characters perfectly. Inside, writer George Alec Effinger and artist Jim Starlin carry the tale forward, with inks by Al Milgrom and lettering by Ben Oda rounding out this December 1973 entry in DC's "Tales of Fantastic Adventure.