Arak #5

(septembre 1986)

Le retour du serpent, 1ère partie : les bêtes des ténèbres (Table of Contents: 1)

Arak fils de la foudre / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited); Dann Thomas (credited); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Tony DeZuniga (credited)

Inks

Tony DeZuniga (credited)

Colors

Adrienne Roy (uncredited)

Letters

?

Job Number

G-1464

Genre

heroic fantasy (sword and sorcery)

Characters

Arak; Valda; Satyricus; Malagigi; Sharizad; Alsind; Harun Al-Rashid; Barmak

Synopsis

Alsind and Satyricus enlist the aid of a number of supposedly-mythological beasts from Barmak's bestiary to kill the Caliph. However, they find themselves in opposition to Arak, Valda, and Malagigi, who feel duty-bound to protect the ruler. At the end, the various beasts are dead and it looks like Arak will have to fight an enraged Alsind, but Sharizad announces she has joined the Caliph's harem and asks, piercingly, if Alsind will kill her, too. Defeated, Alsind drops his weapons and they all begin searching for the villainous Barmak. But, the basilisk found him first...

Reprints

• from Arak / Son of Thunder (DC, 1981 series) #39 (December 1984)

Indexer Notes

Episode qui correspond à la couverture. [Cover story.]

Le retour du serpent, 2ème partie : le jeu de la mort (Table of Contents: 2)

Arak fils de la foudre / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (uncredited); Dann Thomas (uncredited); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Tony DeZuniga (uncredited)

Inks

Tony DeZuniga (uncredited)

Colors

Adrienne Roy (uncredited)

Letters

?

Job Number

G-1517

Genre

heroic fantasy (sword and sorcery)

Characters

Arak; Valda; Satyricus; Malagigi; Alsind; Sharizad; Harun Al-Rashid

Synopsis

Alsind is near death, but Arak manages to use his shaman magic to cure the boy. But, a recovered Alsind then attacks the Caliph, naming him a usurper. In a rage, Harun orders that a game of shatranj (a variant of chess) be played...with living pieces! On one side, played by Sharizad, Arak stands with his friends. On the other side, the Caliph's guardsmen. Sharizad manages to defeat Harun (after a few savage battles by her "pieces") and agrees to marry him. Alsind now realizes that he will never be Caliph, and he volunteers to accompany Arak on the quest for Arak's homeland.

Reprints

• from Arak / Son of Thunder (DC, 1981 series) #40 (January 1985)

Le retour du serpent, 3ème partie : cap sur l'inconnu (Table of Contents: 3)

Arak fils de la foudre / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (uncredited); Dann Thomas (uncredited); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Tony DeZuniga (uncredited)

Inks

Tony DeZuniga (uncredited)

Colors

Adrienne Roy (uncredited)

Letters

?

Job Number

G-1594

Genre

heroic fantasy (sword and sorcery)

Characters

Arak; Valda; Satyricus; Malagigi; Sharizad; Alsind; Captain Re-is Hazz; Angelica

Synopsis

Arak and friends board a ship to search for Arak's homeland. Not long into the voyage, though, a vicious storm hits and Valda is washed overboard and disappears. When the ship chances upon an island, Arak disembarks with Satyricus to investigate. There, they find a city whose populace has gathered at the arena to watch Valda fight for her life against a huge bull. Arak and Satyricus jump to her aid and kill the beast, but Arak's friends are then swallowed by a fissure in the ground. To his horror, Arak realizes the high priestess of the island is none other than his old foe, Angelica!

Reprints

• from Arak / Son of Thunder (DC, 1981 series) #41 (February 1985) [Première partie [First part]]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Arak fils de la foudre / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ernie Colón (uncredited)

Inks

Ernie Colón (uncredited)

Colors

?

Genre

heroic fantasy (sword and sorcery)

Characters

Arak; Valda

Reprints

• from Arak / Son of Thunder (DC, 1981 series) #37 (September 1984)

Keywords

dragons

L'égalisateur (Table of Contents: 5)

Vega / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gary Cohn (credited); Doc Wilde (credited); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Chuck Patton (credited)

Inks

Sal Trapani (credited)

Colors

Carl Gafford (uncredited)

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

Tinker; Lord Maxgold

Synopsis

Tinker creates muskets that would allow all men to be equal and not have to depend on soldiers to protect them from Ogres. Unfortunately, the soldiers like their position in society and destroy the weapon and kill Tinker to keep the status quo.

Reprints

• from The Omega Men (DC, 1983 series) #30 (September 1985)