- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Credits and contents pages.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Reprints
A brief introductory outline of the World of Conan, including a map of The Hyborian Age of Conan.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Starr the Slayer; Trull; Morro; Len Carson
- Synopsis
- Novelist Len Carson plans to write one final story in his popular sword and sorcery series to kill off the protagonist, Starr the Slayer, but his creation comes to life and kills him in self-defense.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed) [as Smith])
- Inks
- John Verpoorten (signed) [as J. V.])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To the death!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Star-Stone Demons
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Dan Adkins
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Volff of Vanaheim (introduction); Olav of Aesgaard (introduction); King Kull (cameo, introduction); Sharkosh the Shaman (introduction); Star-Stone Demons (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Conan battles at Vanaheim and sees his future. Tara returns to her dimension
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Vanaheim
Story page count is 20 (numbered) in book, but since pages 12 and 13 are half-pages (shared with adverts), the total comes to 19 pages in this index. In reprints the two halfs are normally joined back into one.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Die, manling! You are no match for the power of the Beast-Men!
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Thrall Kiord (first appearance, dies); Moira (first appearance); Beast-Men [Gan-Torr; Zha-Gorr; Har-Lann; King Gha-Kree]
- Synopsis
- Conan leads humans in a revolution against their ape-masters. Conan kills a snow-lion.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Underground City of Brutheim
Conan is in chains for the first time.
Story page count is 20 (numbered) in book, but since pages 12 and 13 are half-pages (shared with adverts), the total comes to 19 pages in this index. In reprints the two halfs are normally joined back into one.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Borri [The Grey God]
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (original story)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Borri [Grey God]; Malachi (dies); Choosers of the Slain; Dunland (first appearance); King Brian (first appearance, dies); Eevin (first appearance); Kormlada; King Tomar (first appearance, dies)
- Synopsis
- Conan meets and converses with the Grey God Borri. He then joins the Brythunian army and participates in a great and bloody battle. Conan kills Malachi, a traitor and then watches the winged Choosers of the Slain carry off the souls of the fallen to their just reward.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Brythunia; Hyperborea; Valkyries
Based on "The Grey God Passses" by Robert E. Howard.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (original story)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Taurus of Nemedia (introduction, death); Yara (introduction, death); Yag-Kosha of Yag (introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Conan scales Elephant tower, kills a lion and a giant spider, and saves Yag-Kosha by killing him at his request.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Arenjun; City of Arenjun; City of Thieves; Zamora
Adapted from REH's "The Tower of the Elephant"; later also adapted in The Savage Sword of Conan #24 (Marvel) and Conan #20–22 (Dark Horse).
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Zephra
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Zephra; Zukala
- Synopsis
- Conan frees villages of Zukala's control, saves Zephra from demon, and defeats Zukala, who disappears with his daughter Zephra.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Zamorian Village
inspired by REH poem "Zukala's Hour".
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed) [as Barry Smith])
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed) [as Barry Smith])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen ?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna; Hajii
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Mike Stevens
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Fafnir; Jenna (introduction); Nubion; Maldiz; Hajii the Priestess; the night god
- Synopsis
- In Shadizar, Conan meets the beautiful waitress Jenna. She is however kidnapped by religious fanatics and taken to be sacrificed to the mysterious night god. The god no-one has ever seen is revealed to be a gigantic bat-like creature. Conan saves Jenna from the bat creature, while Jenna in her turn saves Conan from the priestess Hajii. Jenna then steals all his gold and leaves...
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Shadizar; Zamora
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- 5072
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Son of Set; Demetrio; Aztrias
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (original story)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema; Dan Adkins
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; "Son of Set" (a serpent-man, introduction, death); Demetrio (introduction); Aztrias (introduction, death); Dionus (introduction, death); Kallian (introduction, death); Arus (introduction, death); Thoth-Amon
- Synopsis
- Conan saves Lady Aztrias of Numalia from a pack of wolves. She hires Conan to steal from the wealthy merchant Kallian, who temporarily houses a mysterious bowl from Stygia, said to contain a great treasure. Conan burgles the merchant's house, finds the bowl empty and Kallian dead. The city guard appears and Lady Aztrias accuses him of killing Kallian. The real killer was in the bowl, however: a serpent-man, a big snake with a human head. Conan kills the sepent-man and saves Demetrio. In a vision, Conan sees the Stygian sorcerer Thoth-Amon.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Nemedia; Numalia
Adapted from REH story "The God in the Bowl".
Story page count is 20 (numbered) in book, but since pages 12 and 13 are half-pages (shared with adverts), the total comes to 19 pages in this index. In reprints the two halfs are normally joined back into one.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith; John Romita (alterations)
- Inks
- Sal Buscema; John Romita (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (original story)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Tom Sutton; Tom Palmer
- Colors
- Mimi Gold
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; nameless mercenary (dies); Keepers of the crypt; Jenna; soldiers
- Synopsis
- Conan comes across the ruins of the ancient city of Lanjau, where he battles a giant lizard. He meets a nameless mercenary and they both decide to work together in order to retrieve the lost treasure of Lanjau. Undead creatures, keepers of the crypt, try to stop them but are defeated by sunlight. An earthquake buries the mercenary, Lanjau and the treasure. Conan comes to a nearby village, where he once again meets Jenna. When soldiers come to arrest him, Conan and Jenna flee village on horse.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Lost city of Lanjau
Based on the unfinished story fragment Hall of the Dead by Robert E. Howard.
Story page count is 20 (numbered) in book, but since pages 12 and 13 are half-pages (shared with adverts), the total comes to 19 pages in this index. In reprints the two halfs are normally joined back into one.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna; winged creature
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas; Robert E. Howard (original story)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- 654-Z
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna; Hialmar; The Winged One
- Synopsis
- While Conan and Jenna are the guests of a primitive mountain tribe, Jenna is kidnapped by a mysterious winged creature. This creature is the last survivor of his race and takes Jenna to a tower surrounded by flesh-eating flowers. Conan uses a herd of woolly mammoths to scale the tower, kill the creature and save Jenna.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- lost valley; man-eating flowers; Primitive village; woolly mammoths
Comics adaptation of Robert E. Howard's short story "The Garden of Fear".
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed); Marie Severin (Kull vignette)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed); Marie Severin (Kull vignette)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Bull of Anu
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- 698-Z
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Burgun; Jenna; Aron; Igon; Red Bull
- Synopsis
- Conan teams with Burgun in thievery. Burgun is betrayed and hung. Conan avenges his death by killing Aron and a priest. Jenna leaves Conan for Igon. Red Bull is freed and becomes the stars.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Corinthian City
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Thak [an ape] (villain, introduction, death); Nabonidus (Death); Igon (Death); Jenna; Murilo (introduction)
- Reprints
Adapted from Robert E. Howard's "Rogues In the House."
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Vince Colletta
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; Gaspar Saladino (logo)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The most savage hero of all!
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- Mimi Gold; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- 630-Z
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Yulek; Queen Fatima; Yaila
- Synopsis
- Conan becomes Captain of the royal guard in the small city-state of Zahmahn as well as the lover of Queen Fatima. When the Queen catches Conan with the servant girl Yaila in a delicate situation, she leaves them in the dungeon to be devoured by the Dweller in the Dark. They manage to escape, however, and Conan throws the Queen to the monster. According to tradition, Zahmahn can only be ruled by a female sovereign, so Conan nominates Yaila as the new queen.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Corinthia; Zahmahn
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Gil Kane (as Diverse Hands) (Page 1); Tom Palmer (as Diverse Hands) ( Pages 2, 3, 6, 7); Bernie Wrightson (as Diverse Hands) ( Pages 4-5)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Roy Thomas; Gil Kane; Kalligor; Valannus; Hydragon
- Synopsis
- This story is set in Conan's Hyborian in the kingdom of Aqilonia. Kalligor desires to marry the Baron's daughter and so he rides to kill the Hydragon and win her hand.
- Reprints
Gil Kane draws himself and Roy Thomas on the splash and last pages.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; People of Yezud
- Reprints
- Script
- Roy Thomas; John Jakes (plot)
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- Mimi Gold; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- 768Z
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Sarkon (introduction, death); Thanix (introduction, death); Modar (introduction, death); Tork; Lea
- Synopsis
- Conan is delirious in desert, Thanix saves his life. Conan fights Omm (giant spider), Tork destroys Yezud and leaves for Shadizar with Lea.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- City of Yezud; Desert east of Ophir
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
Pencil art of Conan the Barbarian #1.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
Conan the Barbarian #1 plot with page breakdown notes by Barry Windsor-Smith.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- John Verpoorten
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero; sword and sorcery
Roy Thomas's promotional text article from Marvel's official fanzine, Marvelmania, for the release of Conan the Barbarian #1.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
Conan the Barbarian #1 page 1, unused pencil art by Barry Windsor-Smith, used as the frontispiece to MarvelMania's #3's "Roy's Rostrum".
- Pencils
- Roy Thomas
- Letters
- Roy Thomas
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
Conan the Barbarian #1 page 1, pencil sketch for final page layout, by Roy Thomas.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
Roy Thomas continues to promote Conan the Barbarian and take fans behind the scenes of its development in his "Roy's Rostrum" column in Marvelmania #3 (1971).
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
In his final "Roy's Rostrum" focused on Conan the Barbarian, Roy Thomas delved further into the development of the comic book series. Also included are Barry Windsor-Smith's original pencils from Conan the Barbarian #1 that went unused after the story was revised.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Dan Adkins
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
Original art from Conan the Barbarian #1 page 4.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith; Marie Severin
- Inks
- Sal Buscema; Marie Severin; Frank Giacoia
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
Original art from Conan the Barbarian #3 pages 16, 18, concept sketch of #3 cover, original art of #4 and #5 covers, #5 pages 1, 5-6, 19.
- Script
- Robert E. Howard
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
Conan the Barbarian #8's "The Keeper of the Crypt" was based on the story synopsis "The Hall of the Dead" by Robert E. Howard, completed by L. Sprague De Camp.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema; Tom Sutton
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
Original art from Conan the Barbarian #8 cover, pages 1, 5, #9 cover and unused cover.
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
Conan the Barbarian #10 cover, concept sketches.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Anu
Before and after images of panels that had to be changed, from Conan the Barbarian #10, page 16 panel 7, and page 23 panel 7.
- Pencils
- Gil Kane; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Vince Colletta; Bernie Wrightson; Barry Windsor-Smith
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
Original art from Conan the Barbarian #12 cover and page 4, and the unused cover from #13.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Sal Buscema
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
Production photostats from Conan the Barbarian #13, page 6 panel 1, page 16 panel 4, page 17 panel 2, page 18 panel 2.
- Script
- John Jakes
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
Prints Barry Windsor-Smith original cover to Conan the Barbarian #13 and John Jakes’ synopsis
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed) [as Smith])
- Inks
- John Verpoorten (signed) [as J. V.])
- Colors
- Bob Marczak
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Star-Stone Demons
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- John Verpoorten (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Synopsis
- Conan fights a sorcerer and winged men.
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Zephra
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna; Hajii
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Son of Set; Demetrio; Aztrias
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith; John Romita (alterations)
- Inks
- Sal Buscema; John Romita (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Jenna; The Winged One
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Inks
- Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; People of Yezud
- Reprints