Conan
#20 - A Witch Shall Be Born HC
(September 2016)
Dark Horse,
2005 Series
- Volume
- 20
- Price
- 24.99 USD
- Pages
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 2016-09-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dark Horse Books
- Brand
-
Dark Horse Books [facing left]
- ISBN
-
1-5067-0005-5; 978-1-5067-0005-2
- Barcode
- 9781506700052 52499
- Editing
- Aaron Walker (editor); Rachel Roberts (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
Indexed from a preview pdf.
[no title indexed]
Conan / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
-
from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #21 (December 2015)
-
Chapter One
Conan / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #20 (November 2015)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I too am Salome. It was always Salome, the witch.
[no title indexed]
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Robert E. Howard (original); Fred Van Lente (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Brian Ching
- Inks
- Brian Ching
- Colors
- Michael Atiyeh
- Letters
- Richard Starkings
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Taramis, queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping place.
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Taramis; Salome; Constantius; Conan; Valerius; Igva
- Synopsis
- Salome, the twin sister of Queen Taramis, takes over Khauran.
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #20 (November 2015)
-
Chapter Two
Conan / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #21 (December 2015)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Remember me when the vultures are tearing at your living flesh! The desert scavengers are a particularly voracious breed.
[no title indexed]
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Robert E. Howard (original); Fred Van Lente (adaptation)
- Pencils
- José Luis
- Inks
- Andy Owens
- Colors
- Michael Atiyeh
- Letters
- Richard Starkings
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am sorry, captain, that I cannot remain to ease your last hours, but I have duties to perform in yonder city--
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Constantius; Olgerd Vladislav
- Synopsis
- Conan is hung from a cross to die.
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #21 (December 2015)
-
Chapter Three
Conan / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #22 (January 2016)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You can starve a man, drive him from his home, spill his blood... but spit on his honor... and you will learn there is life in him yet!
[no title indexed]
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Robert E. Howard (original); Fred Van Lente (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Brian Ching
- Inks
- Brian Ching
- Colors
- Michael Atiyeh
- Letters
- Richard Starkings
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There! There it is! You see it, Sami?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Sami; Tarek; Conan; Astreus; Salome [as Taramis]; Constantius; Valerius
- Synopsis
- Two former soldiers of Khauran encounter desert bandits.
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #22 (January 2016)
-
Chapter Four
Conan / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #23 (February 2016)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've earned everything I've won, with my blood and sweat.
- Characters
- Conan
[no title indexed]
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Robert E. Howard (original); Fred Van Lente (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Brian Ching
- Inks
- Brian Ching
- Colors
- Michael Atiyeh
- Letters
- Richard Starkings
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zuagir attack!!
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Olgerd Vladislav; Punab
- Synopsis
- Olgerd's ranks swell with new men.
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #23 (February 2016)
-
Chapter Five
Conan / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Salome; Conan
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #24 (March 2016)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How, sister! Have you discovered that you still have unshed tears? Good!
[no title indexed]
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Robert E. Howard (original); Fred Van Lente (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Brian Ching
- Inks
- Brian Ching
- Colors
- Michael Atiyeh
- Letters
- Richard Starkings
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You do not love my caresses, sweet sister?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Taramis; Salome; Khumbanigash; Valerius; Conan; Constantius; Zang
- Synopsis
- Constantius takes his men to crush Conan's troops outside the city.
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #24 (March 2016)
-
Chapter Six
Conan / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #25 (April 2016)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But you civilized men are soft; your lives are not nailed to your spines as are ours.
[no title indexed]
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Robert E. Howard (original); Fred Van Lente (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Brian Ching
- Inks
- Brian Ching
- Colors
- Michael Atiyeh
- Letters
- Richard Starkings; Jimmy Betancourt
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Constantious is beaten.
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Salome; Taramis; Valerius; Ivga; Conan; Thaug; Constantius
- Synopsis
- Salome plans to sacrifice Taramis to Thaug.
- Reprints
- from Conan the Avenger (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #25 (April 2016)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Conan -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
[no title indexed]
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3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
Chapter One
Conan -
5.
["I too am Salome. It was always Salome, the witch."]
-
6.
["Taramis, queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping place."]
Conan -
7.
Chapter Two
Conan -
8.
["Remember me when the vultures are tearing at your living flesh! The desert scavengers are a particularly voracious breed."]
-
9.
["I am sorry, captain, that I cannot remain to ease your last hours, but I have duties to perform in yonder city--"]
Conan -
10.
Chapter Three
Conan -
11.
["You can starve a man, drive him from his home, spill his blood... but spit on his honor... and you will learn there is life in him yet!"]
-
12.
["There! There it is! You see it, Sami?"]
Conan -
13.
Chapter Four
Conan -
14.
["I've earned everything I've won, with my blood and sweat."]
-
15.
["Zuagir attack!!"]
Conan -
16.
Chapter Five
Conan -
17.
["How, sister! Have you discovered that you still have unshed tears? Good!"]
-
18.
["You do not love my caresses, sweet sister?"]
Conan -
19.
Chapter Six
Conan -
20.
["But you civilized men are soft; your lives are not nailed to your spines as are ours."]
-
21.
["Constantious is beaten."]
Conan -
22.
[no title indexed]
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23.
[no title indexed]
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24.
[no title indexed]
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25.
["Taramis, the beloved queen of Khauran, was born with a twin sister, Salome - but by an ancient doom placed on their bloodline Salome's chest bore a scarlet half-moon birthmark: the mark of the witch!"]
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- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Keith Alan Morgan
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