I'm talking like proper ass pulp shit with some Frank Frazetta ass shit on the cover, like a big Barbarian dude throwing an axe at a sorcerer with a pet giant snake.
I've never actually read any of that stuff but I'm curious what that genres Citizen Kane is.
You're not kidding, suggesting an older fantasy novel sometimes requires a CW list longer than the book itself.
I recently, in the last year, got into Tanith Lee, and read the first three of her Tales from Flat Earth novels.
She was writing in the '70s, and in some ways the books feel much more forward-thinking than you would expect from something that old. There are strong female protagonists, characters of a variety of ethnicities (well, the first book notwithstanding), several prominent LGBT characters including the hero of the second book who is gender fluid. At the same time I'd probably list the top ten CWs I could think of if I tried to recommend the books and still miss something notable.