The Savage Sword of Conan #25

Brian Moore's painted cover for issue #25 sets an appropriately fierce tone: Conan, axe raised and muscles straining, faces down a monstrous, flame-wreathed demon against the backdrop of a massive stone altar and a pale full moon — it's a striking image of brute strength versus supernatural fire. Inside, Roy Thomas adapts Robert E. Howard's "Jewels of Gwahlur" as a novel-length thriller, with Dick Giordano and Terry Austin handling the art across what promises to be a sorcery-laden Hyborian adventure. As a bonus, 1977 readers also got a Solomon Kane extra tucked into this already generously packed magazine.