The Savage Sword of Conan #3

(December 1974)

[Frontispiece] (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Alfredo Alcala (signed as Alfredo Alcala)

Inks

Alfredo Alcala (signed as Alfredo Alcala)

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan

Reprints

• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #38 (May 1990)
• in La Aventura de Conan: Antología 15 Años (Planeta DeAgostini, 1997 series) (Noviembre 1997)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There is reveling this night in the court of Khoraja...

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Excerpt from The Nemedian Chronicles, photograph and introduction to At the Mountain of the Moon-God.

At the Mountain of the Moon-God [Chapter One] (Table of Contents: 4)

Conan / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

Pablo Marcos

Letters

John Costanza (Pages 3-6); Joe Rosen (Pages 7-16)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

M-My Princess... My Princess. I...

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Tevalos; Princess Yasmela; General Malthom; Vateesa; Prince Katuman; King Strabonus; Sergius of Khrosha; Commander Quzak; Captain Geballus; King Khossus

Synopsis

Conan goes to rescue King Khossus who has been captured by Ophir.

Reprints

• in Une Aventure de Conan (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #1 - Le colosse noir (2ème trimestre 1976) [Chapter One]
• in Conan Annual (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (1977) [color reprint]
which is reprinted
• in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #7
• in Conan Barbar (Slobodna Dalmacija, 1995 series) #4
• in Anual 80 (Ediciones Vértice, 1980 series) #1 - Conan (Diciembre 1979)
• in Conan le Barbare (Arédit-Artima, 1984 series) #5 - La voix du passé (janvier 1985) [-3 pages]
• in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) #3 (2019), #3 (2019), #3 (2019)
• in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #5 - Of Once and Future Kings (2022)
• in Une Aventure de Conan (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #6 - Le château hanté (1er trimestre 1978) [page 9 case 6], #7 - La Forteresse de Xapur (2e trimestre 1978) [page 9 case 6]
• in Die Sprechblase (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1978 series) #19 (März 1979)
• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #4/1985 (uke 14 1985) [2 pages removed]
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #12 (April 1988)
• in Conan album (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1992 series) #36 - Skygger i Zamboula ([juni] 2001)
• in Conan (Panini Deutschland, 2002 series) #1 (2002)
• in Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #1 (December 2007)
• in Legenden om Conan (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2017 series) #1 ([mai] 2017)
• in Collection the Savage Sword of Conan (Hachette, 2017 series) #2 (octobre 2017)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Pages 1-2 have no dialogue.

[At the Mountain of the Moon-God] Chapter Two: Where Dark Death Soars (Table of Contents: 5)

Conan / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

Pablo Marcos

Letters

Joe Rosen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We'll see later if we can tell kings' bones from barbarians'!

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Vateesa; King Khossus; Commander Quzak; Princess Yasmela; Prince Katuman

Synopsis

While rescuing King Khossus, Conan must battle a pterosaur.

Reprints

• in Une Aventure de Conan (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #1 - Le colosse noir (2ème trimestre 1976) [Chapter Two]
• in Die Sprechblase (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1978 series) #19 (März 1979)
• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #4/1985 (uke 14 1985)
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #12 (April 1988)
• in Conan album (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1992 series) #36 - Skygger i Zamboula ([juni] 2001)
• in Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #1 (December 2007)
• in Legenden om Conan (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2017 series) #1 ([mai] 2017)
• in Collection the Savage Sword of Conan (Hachette, 2017 series) #2 (octobre 2017)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

The First Barbarian (Part 2) (Table of Contents: 6)

Chronicles of the Sword / text article / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Lin Carter

Pencils

John Severin (signed as Severin) (illustrations)

Inks

John Severin (signed as Severin) (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The first genuine story of sword-and-sorcery which Robert E. Howard ever published was "The Shadow Kingdom,"...

Characters

Kull

Reprints

• in The Savage Sword of Kull (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (November 2010)
• in Collection the Savage Sword of Conan (Hachette, 2017 series) #2 (octobre 2017)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Part II of Lin Carter's 'Chronicles of the Sword' feature examines Robert E. Howard's creation of the sword-and-sorcery genre in the pages of "Weird Tales" pulp magazine in the 1920's and 30's, starting with the Atlantean outcast who became King Kull. Article is accompanied by two Kull illustrations by Severin.

[Blackmark] Chapter III, The Testing of Blackmark (Table of Contents: 7)

Blackmark / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Gil Kane; Archie Goodwin (uncredited)

Pencils

Neal Adams; Gil Kane (signed as GK)

Inks

Neal Adams; Gil Kane (signed as GK)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

King Kargon felt the hot flush of rage spread through his body.

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

King Kargon; Blackmark; Queen Lyllith; Nephus; Balzamo

Synopsis

Blackmark spurns Lyllith's attentions and is slated for death in the arena facing the Flame Lizard. He is taken to a holding cell where Balzamo recognizes a mark Blackmark shared with his mother, indicating he has the power of Amarix. Balzamo and Blackmark are taken to the arena to face the Flame Lizard, but Blackmark kills the beast.

Reprints

• from Blackmark (Bantam Books, 1971 series) #S5871 (January 1971) [paperback page art reoriented to fit magazine page size]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Alfredo Alcala (signed as Alfredo P. Alcala)

Inks

Alfredo Alcala (signed as Alfredo P. Alcala)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

While the Band Plays On... Subscribe.

Indexer Notes

House ad for Marvel's black and white magazines.

Kull of Atlantis (Table of Contents: 9)

Kull / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Robert E. Howard

Pencils

Barry Windsor-Smith

Inks

Barry Windsor-Smith

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We have been enemies to the Seven Empires since the dawn of time...

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Kull; Am-ra; Khor-nah; Sareeta

Synopsis

Sareeta, an Atlantean who married a Lemurian pirate, has been captured after being washed ashore when the pirate ship was broken. As Kull arrives, she is about to be burned for bringing shame to Atlantis. With her nodded assent, Kull hurls his dagger just under her heart, killing her instantly to spare her an agonizing death. Kull's tribesmen chase him with the intent of slaying him for violating their code of morals, but are unable to catch him.

Reprints

• in Super Conan (Planeta DeAgostini, 1982 series) #6 ([Octubre] 1983)
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #51 (June 1991)
• in The Savage Sword of Kull (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (November 2010)
• in Kull the Savage: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)

Indexer Notes

This is not a complete story. According to the splash page notes, Barry Smith and Roy Thomas were planning a paperback comic book dealing with the early days of Kull of Atlantis. The paperback never happened, but Smith did a number of finished drawings in preparation for the book. Some of those drawings are presented here with quotations from the story "Exile Of Atlantis" by Robert E. Howard.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Conan / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

As a young man of 21 or so, Conan rides eastward to the powerful and opulent kingdom of Turan...

Genre

sword and sorcery

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Photograph and introduction to Demons of the Summit.

Demons of the Summit (Table of Contents: 11)

Conan / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (adaptation); Björn Nyberg (original story); L. Sprague de Camp (original story)

Pencils

Tony DeZuniga

Inks

Tony DeZuniga

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why do we tarry here, Conan?

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Jamal; Shanya; Shangara

Synopsis

A king's emissary fails to heed Conan's warnings about Khozgari treachery, and only Conan and Jamal escape with their lives. During their escape, they encounter Shanya, the daughter of a Khozgari chief, and take her hostage. When they take a shortcut through the Misty Mountains, they are attacked by the Demons of the Summit. Jamal is killed and Shanya is taken to Shangara, leader of the summit people. He wants to use Shanya as a mate for himself and his son until Conan rescues her.

Reprints

• in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #11
• in Une Aventure de Conan (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #5 - Le royaume des damnés (4ème trimestre 1977) [Minus 1 page [Moins 1 page]]
• in Die Sprechblase (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1978 series) #20 (1. Mai 1979)
• in A Espada Selvagem de Conan (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #1 ([1984])
which is reprinted
• in A Espada Selvagem de Conan Reedição (Editora Abril, 1991 series) #1 ([Novembro de 1990])
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #13 (May 1988)
• in Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #1 (December 2007) [color reprint]
• in Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #6 (November 2013) [color]
• in Legenden om Conan (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2017 series) #1 ([mai] 2017)
• in Collection the Savage Sword of Conan (Hachette, 2017 series) #2 (octobre 2017)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Adaptation of the short story, "People of the Summit" by Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Conan / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Virgil Redondo (signed as Virgilio Redondo)

Inks

Virgil Redondo (signed as Virgilio Redondo)

Letters

typeset

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Swords and Scrolls / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (illustrations)

Inks

? (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Craig Peters, Deb Hammer-Johnson, Bill Murray, Lisa Drazich, Luther C. Conant III, Jeff Brown, and Harlan Ellison.