Conan the Barbarian #148 [Direct]
(July 1983)

Marvel, 1970 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-03-15
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Danny Fingeroth (assistant editor); Louise Simonson [as Louise Jones] (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #22, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-04-05.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
John Buscema
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan
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A Cracker Jack Story (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Plague of Forlek (Table of Contents: 2)

Conan / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Bruce Jones (credited)
Pencils
John Buscema (credited)
Inks
Ernie Chan
Colors
George Roussos
Letters
Janice Chiang (credited)
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Forlek (first appearance, villain, death); Kalefan; Price Pelen; Princess Alitari; King Selt; Lamerak
Reprints

Behind the Candy Counter (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bubble Yum / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Avalanche] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Dungeons & Dragons / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Conan
  2. 1. A Cracker Jack Story
    Cracker Jack
  3. 2. The Plague of Forlek
    Conan
  4. 3. Behind the Candy Counter
    Bubble Yum
  5. 4. A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Avalanche]
    Dungeons & Dragons
  6. 5. ["Buy this book or I'll shoot this coyote!!"]
    Coyote
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
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