- Script:
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils:
- John Buscema
- Inks:
- Dick Giordano (figures, pages 1, 7-16); Terry Austin (backgrounds, pages 1, 7-16); Dan Adkins (panel 2 of page 1, pages 2-6)
- Colors:
- Glynis Wein
- Letters:
- John Costanza
- Genre:
- sword and sorcery
- Synopsis:
- Setting: Western border wastelands; Flashback story of 15 year old Conan achieving manhood; Conan is captured by Torkal Moh.
- Reprints:
Part 3 of 6. Dan Adkins inks the flashback sequence; adapted from the Belmont novel "Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse" by Gardner F. Fox.