Conan the Barbarian is back at Marvel Comics, and he’ll be meeting up with some of the publisher’s finest… for some variant covers.

The Cimmerian returns

Well, we’re almost there. Conan returns to Marvel for the first time in decades this January with a new series. And before his first month back, the barbarian will also kick off a series of variant covers that’ll adorn the rest of Marvel’s line.

These won’t be your run of the mill pieces either, as they’ll have the warrior crossing paths with a few of Marvel’s biggest stars. Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Ultron and more will all feature opposite Conan. He’ll take on the heroes the December, the month before that fateful first issue, followed by a “villains” series in January.

December’s covers look a little something like this: