Conan the Barbarian #118 [Newsstand]

(January 1981)

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Valley of Forever Night (Table of Contents: 2)

Conan / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

J. M. DeMatteis

Pencils

John Buscema (breakdowns); Ernie Chan (finishes)

Inks

Ernie Chan

Colors

George Roussos

Letters

John Costanza

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Jenna; Hajii (flashback); Night-God (flashback); Garakaa (flashback); Slave-Trader; Erlik [God of Evil and Death] (mentioned); the Converted (die); Rock-Thing (destroyed); "Taloned Death" (dies); People of the Black Jewel [Myya L'rrasleff (dies)]

Synopsis

Conan saves Jenna from a swordsman. Jenna is covered with leprosy-like boils. Conan also catches the disease. Conan and Jenna climb mountain, enter castle, and kill alien Myya L'rrasleff which rids them of the disease.

Reprints

• in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #13
• in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #33 ([abril 1984]), #34 ([abril 1984])
• in Conan the Barbarian (Federal, 1984 series) #3 ([October ?] 1984)
• in Conan le Barbare (Arédit-Artima, 1984 series) #4 - Les cachots de Mullah-Kajar (novembre 1984)
• in Conan de Barbaar Special (Juniorpress, 1985 series) #16 (1989)
• in Espada Selvagem de Conan em Cores (Editora Abril, 1987 series) #12 ([Julho de 1991]) [recolored]
• in Conan, Barbaren (Semic Interpresse, 1993 series) #6 (19, maj 1994)
• in Conan album (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1992 series) #33 - Mørkets dal ([august] 2000)
• in The Chronicles of Conan (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #15 - The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories (July 2008)

Keywords

Castle of Myya L'rrasleff; Countryside southwest of Shem; Shem; the Black Jewel; Valley of Forever Night; Zamora

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Script

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Letters

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Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Steve Tussey, Napoleon Zivkovic, Kimberly Arber, Phillip Tanis, and Charles David Haskell.