- Script:
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils:
- Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
- Inks:
- Dan Adkins (pp 1-9); none (pp 10-20)
- Colors:
- Barry Smith
- Letters:
- John Costanza
- Job Number:
- 1014Z
- Genre:
- sword and sorcery; fantasy
- Characters:
- Conan; Fafnir; Yezdigerd; The Tarim; Kharam-Akkad (intro); Balthaz
- Synopsis:
- Setting: Ship, City of Makkalet; Conan works for Turanian military and lays seige to Makkalet; Legend of the Living Tarim is told; Conan makes enemy of Balthaz; Fafnir is wounded by flaming arrow;
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Only pages 1-9 are inked; the rest were printed directly from pencils; coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005]