Conan the Barbarian
#126
[Newsstand]
(September 1981)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860249809
- Editing
- Louise Jones (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #126 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Conan / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Buscema (signed)
- Inks
- Terry Austin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; the Unknowable One
- Reprints
-
in Conan le Barbare (Editions Héritage, 1972 series) #111/112 -
in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #39 ([junio 1984]) -
in Conan le Barbare (Arédit-Artima, 1984 series) #8 - L'œil sanglant (mai 1985) -
in The Chronicles of Conan (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #16 - The Eternity War and Other Stories (2008)
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![Cover Thumbnail for Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #126 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/988/w200/988608.jpg?6022832701344168079)
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![Cover Thumbnail for Conan the Barbarian (1970 series) #126 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1070/w100/1070886.jpg?-7607116725986524649)
The Blood Red Eye of Truth!
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- J. M. DeMatteis
- Pencils
- John Buscema (breakdowns); Bob McLeod (finished art)
- Inks
- Bob McLeod
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- Joe Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Liirix (dies); the Unknowable One (dies); Sect of the Unknowable One [Shikar (dies)]; Set (mentioned); Priests of Set; Beast (dies)
- Synopsis
- Liirix promises to send Conan home if he takes down the Sect of the Unknowable One. Conan helps Shikar make it to the Unnameable City to die. Conan kills the Unknowable One and steals the Blood-Red Eye. Conan gives the Eye to Liirix but then changes his mind and destroys it to free the soul of Shikar.
- Reprints
-
in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #14 - in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #39 ([junio 1984])
-
in Conan the Barbarian (Federal, 1984 series) #5 ([March] 1985) - in Conan le Barbare (Arédit-Artima, 1984 series) #8 - L'œil sanglant (mai 1985)
-
in Pocketserien (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1995 series) #17 - Conan - Heksene fra Nexxx! ([september] 1998) which is reprinted - in The Chronicles of Conan (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #16 - The Eternity War and Other Stories (2008)
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- Keywords
- Blood-Red Eye; Book of Unknowables; magic mirror; Stygia; Temple of Nexxx; Unnameable City
The Human Torch in Hot-Tempered Triumph!
Hostess Twinkies; Human Torch / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Conan -
1.
The Blood Red Eye of Truth!
Conan -
2.
The Human Torch in Hot-Tempered Triumph!
Hostess Twinkies; Human Torch
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Nuno Miranda
- Derek Reinhard
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