Arak / Son of Thunder
#9
[Direct]
(May 1982)
DC,
1981 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-01-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved By the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (editor, credited); Dave Manak (associate editor, credited); Laurie Sutton (editor, uncredited)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Story credits and letters page says Laurie Sutton takes over as editor. Not reflected in indicia until next issue.
This issue has variants:
Story credits and letters page says Laurie Sutton takes over as editor. Not reflected in indicia until next issue.
This issue has variants:
Adventure on the High Seas!
Arak, Son of Thunder / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ernie Colón (signed)
- Inks
- Ernie Colón (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-871
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Arak
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Out of the City of the Dead!
Arak, Son of Thunder / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Ernie Colón
- Inks
- Rodin Rodriguez
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Editing
- Laurie Sutton
- Job Number
- J-8061
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Arak; Iron Maiden [Valda]; Pope Hadrian (flashback); Montagu; Nessim
- Synopsis
- Continuing their search for White Cathay, Arak and Valda manage to finagle a ride on Captain Montagu's ship. Montagu is loading oddly-shaped rocks, claimed from the ruins of Pompeii, into the hold of his ship, claiming they are to be used to build a temple. Later, after fending off pirates, Arak and Valda learn Montagu's villainous nature and are taken prisoner, and Arak is thrown into the hold with the rocks. But, it turns out the rocks contain the remains of Pompeii's people, and one of their high priests awakens and reanimates the corpses, who kill Montagu's crew and sink the ship.
- Reprints
Frozen Hell for a Viking!
The Viking Prince / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher
- Pencils
- Jan Duursema
- Inks
- Jan Duursema
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- Andy Kubert
- Editing
- Dick Giordano
- Genre
- sword and sorcery; adventure; historical
- Characters
- Viking Prince [Jon]; Krogg (flashback); Ailsa (flashback); Evor; Gorra
- Synopsis
- Searching for his abducted sister, Jon enlists the aid of a mute minstrel and a dwarf named Evor. They soon chance upon a maiden being sacrificed to a fire-breathing dragon, but Jon manages to slay the beast. But, one of the dragon's druid worshipers attacks Jon from behind and hacks off his arm. Evor kills the druid and the freed maiden suggests they take Jon to a nearby wise-woman, who may be able to restore his arm.
- Reprints
-
in Warlord (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #5 - La Reine-Cobra (avril 1984)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 2. This ends the flashback sequence begun in the previous issue.
[no title indexed]
Scroll Call / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ernie Colón (signed, cover preview)
- Inks
- Ernie Colón (signed, cover preview)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-990
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Arak
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Mike Spicer, Tyler Stevens, Joshua Adam Bilmes, Dominec Romano, Todd Christie, David Tompkins, J.P. Kelly, Ron Wilson, Barbara French, and Dave Pfeil.
Page also includes a miniature preview of next issue's cover art.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Adventure on the High Seas!
Arak, Son of Thunder -
1.
Out of the City of the Dead!
Arak, Son of Thunder -
2.
Frozen Hell for a Viking!
The Viking Prince -
3.
[no title indexed]
Scroll Call
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Shan McLaughlin
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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