The Savage Sword of Conan #125

The dramatic cover by Thomas Kidd sets an immediate tone of desperate struggle — a muscular, bare-chested Conan grapples alongside a scantily clad woman while an enormous, coiling serpentine dragon looms over them both against a stormy, volcanic sky. That combination of raw physicality and monstrous scale is exactly the kind of sword-and-sorcery imagery that made this Marvel magazine format so well-suited to Robert E. Howard's world. Inside, writer Charles Dixon and artist Geof Isherwood bring "At the Altar of the Goat God" to life — a title that promises dark rituals and primal danger in true Hyborian fashion.