The Savage Sword of Conan #87

Conan hurls himself sword-first at a hulking, horned demon clad in dark armor and raising a battle-axe, the creature's vast bat-wings spreading across a fiery red sky in John Pound's cover for this April 1983 issue. The confrontation crackles with ferocious energy — muscle and steel against something that looks like it stepped out of the deepest pit of the Hyborian Age. Inside, Ernie Chan handles the full creative load on "The Armor of Zuulda Thaal," making this an unusually unified vision from a single talented hand.