The Best Sword & Sorcery Comics of All Time!

I rank the best sword & sorcery comics of all time in two categories; colour and black & white. Your nominations are encouraged.

Two Categories:
1.) Colour comics
2.) Black & white

The Rules:
Nominate single issues or short, (relatively) self-contained storyarcs. List title, issue number(s) & creative team; writer, artist, inker.
Title of story(arc), publication date & publisher are nice to have, but not mandatory. Basically, the more details, the better, so folks can track them down.Nominations must be by the same creative team.
European and British comics are permitted.

Here are some of my nominations, vaguely in order of preference. I will keep adding as candidates occur to me.

COLOUR COMICS:

1. Conan (Marvel) #24: ‘The Song of Red Sonja’ by Barry Smith & Roy Thomas

2. Conan (Marvel) #20: ‘The Black Hound of Vengeance’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Dan Adkins

3. Kull the Destroyer (Marvel -1973) #11: ‘By this Axe...I Rule!’ by Roy Thomas & Mike Ploog

4. Conan (Marvel) #14-15: ‘The Green Empress of Melnibone’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Sal Buscema

5. Conan (Marvel) #7: ‘The Lurker Within’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith, Dan Adkins & Sal Buscema

   

6. Conan (Marvel) #11: ‘Rogues in the House’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Sal Buscema

7. Conan (Marvel) #4: ‘The Tower of the Elephant’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Sal Buscema

8. Conan (Marvel) #19: ‘Hawks from the Sea’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Dan Adkins

9. Conan (Marvel) #8: ‘The Keepers of the Crypt’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Tom Sutton + Tom Palmer

10. Conan (Marvel) #5: ‘Zukala’s Daughter’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Frank Giacioa

11. Conan (Marvel) #6: ‘Devil-Wings Over Shadizar’ by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith & Sal Buscema

12. Kull the Conqueror Vol. 1 (Marvel - 1972 ) #2-3 + Monsters of the Prowl #16 featuring Kull: ‘The Shadow Kingdom/The Death Dance of Thulsa Doom’ by Roy Thomas with Marie & John Severin

13. Creatures on the Loose #10 featuring Kull the Conqueror (Marvel - 1971): ‘The Skull of Silence’ by Roy Thomas & Bernie Wrightson

14. Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel) #3: ‘Valley of the Worm’ by Roy Thomas/Gerry Conway, Gil Kane & Ernie Chua/Chan - with thanks to Jan Scherpenhuizen

    

15. Kull the Conqueror (Marvel - 1982) #2: ‘The Blood of Kings’ by Doug Moench & John Bolton

16. Conan (Marvel) #37: ‘The Curse of the Golden Skull’ by Roy Thomas & Neal Adams - with thanks to Bill Smith

17. Solomon Kane in ‘The Serpent Ring’ #1-4 (Titan - 2025?) by Patrick Zircher

18. Spawn The Dark Ages #1-6 (Image - 2025) by Liam Sharp

19. Beowulf Dragon-Slayer (DC - 1975?): ‘Valley in the Shadow of Death’ by Michael Uslan & Ricardo Villamonte

20. Sword of Sorcery #1 (DC - 1975) #1: Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser in ‘The Price of Pain’s Ease’ by Denny O’Neil, Howard Chaykin & the Crusty Bunkers - Classic cover by Mike Kaluta

19. Sword of Socery (DC - 1975) #4: Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser in ‘The Sunken Land’ by Denny O’Neil & Walt Simonson

20. Sword of Socery (DC - 1975) #4: Young Fafhrd (back-up feature) in ‘The Prophecy’ by (Young) Walt Simonson

21. Sword of Socery (DC - 1975) #5: Mouser (back-up feature) in ‘The Mouse Alone’ by George Effinger, Jim Starlin & Al Milgrom

22. Weird Worlds (DC - 1975?) #10: Iron Wolf in ‘Home World’ by Denny O’Neil & Howard Chaykin - Classic cover by Mike Kaluta

    

23. Marvel Premiere (Marvel) #33-34: Solomon Kane in ‘Red Shadows’ by Roy Thomas & Howard Chaykin

BLACK & WHITE

1. Savage Tales (Marvel) #2 & 3: Conan in ‘Red Nails’ by Barry Smith & Roy Thomas

2. Savage Tales (Marvel) #5: Conan in ‘The Dweller in the Dark’ by Roy Thomas & Barry Smith. Yes, I know this was originally published in the colour Conan, but it was originally intended for ST and for b&w.

   

3. Savage Tales (Marvel) #1: Conan in ‘The Frost Giant’s Daugher’ by Roy Thomas & Barry Smith

4. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #5: Conan in ‘A Witch Shall be Born’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Tony DeZuniga’s Tribe

5. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #4: Conan in ‘Iron Shadows in the Moonlight’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Alfredo Alcala

6. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #26 & 27: Conan in ‘Beyond the Black River’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Tony DeZuniga

   

7. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #2: Conan in ‘Black Colossos’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Alfredo Alcala

8. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #20: Conan in ‘The Slithering Shadow’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Alfedo Alcala

9. Savage Sword of Conan(Marvel) #12: Conan in ‘The Haunters of Castle Crimson’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Alfredo Alcala

10. Savage Sword of Conan(Marvel) #15: Conan in ‘The Devil in Iron’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Alfredo Alcala

11. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #16-19: Conan in ‘The People of the Black Circle’ by Roy Thomas, John Buscema & Alfredo Alcala

12. Bizarre Adventures (Marvel) #26 featuring Kull: ‘Demon in a Silvered Glass’ by Doug Moench & John Bolton

13. Savage Sword of Conan (Titan - 2024?): Conan in ‘The Wuthering’ by Liam Sharp

14. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #62: Conan in ‘Temple of the Tiger’ by Michael Fleisher, John Buscema & Ernie Chan

15. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #61: Conan in ‘The Wizard Fiend of Zingara’ by Michael Fleisher & John Buscema (pencils & inks!)

    

16. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #30: Conan in ‘The Scarlet Citadel’ by Roy Thomas & Frank Brunner with thanks to Paulo Stone

17. Dracula Lives (Marvel) #3 featuring Solomon Kane (back-up) in ‘Castle of the Undead’ by Roy Thomas, Alan Weiss & the Crusty Bunkers

18. Monsters Unleashed (Marvel) #1 featuring Solomon Kane (back-up) in ‘Skulls in the Stars’ by Roy Thomas & Ralph Reese

19. Eerie #66 featuring El Cid (Warren - 1975) by Budd Lewis & Gonzalo Mayo

20. Eerie #59 featuring Dax the Damned (Warren - 1974) by Budd Lewis & Esteban Maroto - Recommended by G. Taylor (on substack)

21. Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel) #6: ‘People of the Dark’ by Roy Thomas & Alex Nino with thanks to Jan Scherpenhuizen