King Conan #18 [Direct]
(September 1983)

Marvel, 1980 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 0.50 GBP; 1.25 CAD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1983-05-03
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley) (editir); Larry Hama (credited) (senior editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor in chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #25, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-05-24.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

King of the Freaks? (Table of Contents)

King Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Marie Severin (signed as SEVERIN) (see Notes)
Inks
Marie Severin (signed as SEVERIN) (see Notes)
Colors
George Roussos
Letters
?
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Marie Severin cover art per Nick Caputo. The book The Marvel Art of Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 2019 series) and Dark Horse's collected book The Chronicles of King Conan Volume 4: The Prince Is Dead and Other Stories (2013) both credit John Severin as the cover artist.

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The Devil of Darfar (Table of Contents: 1)

King Conan / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Zelenetz (credited)
Pencils
Rudy Nebres (credited)
Inks
Rudy Nebres (credited)
Colors
George Roussos (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Cimmeria's no
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Ibo Mala (villain, introduction); Montago (villain, introduction, death)
Reprints

The Marc Silvestri Interview (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley); Marc Silvestri
Pencils
Marc Silvestri
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Characters
Conan
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. King of the Freaks?
    King Conan
  2. 1. The Devil of Darfar
    King Conan
  3. 2. The Marc Silvestri Interview
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Andrew Krieg
  • Glenn MacKay
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Stangas
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