(August 1975)

Marvel, 1974 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD
Pages
76
Indicia Frequency
Bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor); Marv Wolfman (consulting editor); Archie Goodwin (consulting editor)

Citadel at the Center of Time (Table of Contents)

Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Boris Vallejo (signed as Boris) (painting)
Inks
Boris Vallejo (signed as Boris) (painting)
Colors
Boris Vallejo (signed as Boris) (painting)
Letters
typeset
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #7
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Vicente Alcázar (signed as Vicente Alcázar)
Inks
Vicente Alcázar (signed as Vicente Alcázar)
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema (illustrations); ? (illustration)
Inks
Alfredo Alcala (illustrations); ? (illustration)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Conan
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Table of contents and indicia.

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

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

Script
Robert E. Howard
Pencils
? (map)
Inks
? (map)
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Excerpt from The Nemedian Chronicles, map of the Hyborian Age, and introduction to The Citadel at the Center of Time.

The Citadel at the Center of Time [Part One] (Table of Contents: 4)

Conan / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Alfredo Alcala
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Caravans venture forth uneasily in these days from the Shemitish city of Akbitana...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Amul; Shallim
Synopsis
Conan and his raiders attack a caravan but find only a girl and a sabre-tooth cat for loot.
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[The Citadel at the Center of Time] Part Two: In the Shadow of Fear (Table of Contents: 5)

Conan / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Alfredo Alcala
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
...All is in readiness as you have commanded, O Chieftain!
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Alhambra; Whazir; Omar
Synopsis
Conan travels to the city of Akbitana to discover the secret of the mysterious Citadel that has appeared there.
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[The Citadel at the Center of Time] Part Three: Sorcerer's Trove (Table of Contents: 6)

Conan / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Alfredo Alcala
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
No one sees the woman depart, shortly afterward, by a back way...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Alhambra; Shamash-Shum-Ukin
Synopsis
Conan awakens inside the Citadel, captive of Shamash-Shum-Ukin who plans to use him as a sacrifice to the Well of Time.
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[The Citadel at the Center of Time] Part IV: Into Time's Abyss (Table of Contents: 7)

Conan / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Alfredo Alcala
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Like the rise and fall of an angry smithy's hammer...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Alhambra; Shamash-Shum-Ukin; Nishi; Ashurbanipal (flashback); Whazir; Omar; Ali; Dhassid
Synopsis
Conan and Alhambra escape from the Well of Time and from the Citadel as it comes tumbling down.
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The Gods of the Hyborian Age, Part II: Crom and Mitra: Gods to Swear By (Table of Contents: 8)

Gods of the Hyborian Age / text article / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Yaple (credited as Robert L. Yaple)
Pencils
Mike Vosburg (signed as Mike Vosburg) (illustration); ? (illustrations)
Inks
Mike Vosburg (signed as Mike Vosburg) (illustration); ? (illustrations)
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Not much is definitely known about Ymir, the frost giant, god of Nordheim...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Bori; Mitra
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Indexer Notes

Includes full-page illustration of Conan by Vosburg and three small illustrations.

The King Is Dead - Part IV of Chronicles of the Sword: An Informal History of Sword-and-Sorcery Fiction (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script
Lin Carter
Pencils
Gray Morrow (signed as Gray Morrow) (illustration); ? (illustration)
Inks
Gray Morrow (signed as Gray Morrow) (illustration); ? (illustration)
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
As we have previously seen, the editorial rejection of the bulk of the King Kull series...
Characters
Conan
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes full-page illustration of Conan by Gray Morrow and one small illustration.

Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (Table of Contents: 10)

Conan / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Robert E. Howard
Pencils
Barry Windsor-Smith (illustrations)
Inks
Barry Windsor-Smith (illustrations)
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Black Door gapes and the Black Wall rises...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Copyright © 1946 by August Derleth for "Skullface and Others".

The Hyborian Age, Chapter 1: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age (Table of Contents: 11)

The Hyborian Age / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (original essay)
Pencils
Walter Simonson
Inks
Walter Simonson
Letters
Walter Simonson
First Line of Dialogue or Text
When Robert E. Howard began to chronicle the adventures of Conan the Cimmerian...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Kull
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Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Walt Simonson via GCD Errors list, October 2009.

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

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

Script
? (promo copy)
Pencils
Bob Kline (signed as R. Kline)
Inks
Bob Kline (signed as R. Kline)
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Tired of Dueling With the Neighborhood Bully for the Latest Issue of the Savage Sword of Conan?

Indexer Notes

Promotional advertisement for black and white magazine subscriptions. Illustration © 1972 by Gary Groth and Bob Kline.

Next Issue: The Country of the Knife (Table of Contents: 13)

Conan / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

Script
? (promo copy)
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Letters
typeset
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan

Indexer Notes

Promotional advertisement for the next issue and for the Savage Sword of Conan Special.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema (sketch)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Conan
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes layout sketch for the cover of The Savage Sword of Conan #5 (April 1975).
Letters from Mrs. Robin Seymour, Byron L. Roark, Lee Jay Oplinger, J. Wayne Sadler, and Rob Sansing.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Citadel at the Center of Time
    Conan
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Conan
  3. 2. Table of Contents
  4. 3. ["Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis..."]
    Conan
  5. 4. The Citadel at the Center of Time [Part One]
    Conan
  6. 5. [The Citadel at the Center of Time] Part Two: In the Shadow of Fear
    Conan
  7. 6. [The Citadel at the Center of Time] Part Three: Sorcerer's Trove
    Conan
  8. 7. [The Citadel at the Center of Time] Part IV: Into Time's Abyss
    Conan
  9. 8. The Gods of the Hyborian Age, Part II: Crom and Mitra: Gods to Swear By
    Gods of the Hyborian Age
  10. 9. The King Is Dead - Part IV of Chronicles of the Sword: An Informal History of Sword-and-Sorcery Fiction
    Chronicles of the Sword
  11. 10. Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die
    Conan
  12. 11. The Hyborian Age, Chapter 1: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age
    The Hyborian Age
  13. 12. ["Tired of Dueling With the Neighborhood Bully for the Latest Issue of the Savage Sword of Conan?"]
  14. 13. Next Issue: The Country of the Knife
    Conan
  15. 14. [no title indexed]
    Swords and Scrolls
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  • Max Capp
  • Steve Dasinger
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  • Darrel McCann
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Nuno Miranda
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
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