(July 1971)

Marvel, 1970 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.15 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1971-04-27 ?
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
Editing
Stan Lee (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date calculated from on-sale dates of preceding and succeeding issues.

In the Coils of the Man-Serpent! (Table of Contents)

Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Barry Windsor-Smith (signed as Barry Smith)
Inks
Barry Windsor-Smith (signed as Barry Smith)
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen

Job Number
5072
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Son of Set; Demetrio; Aztrias
Reprints

The Lurker Within (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas (credited) (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (credited) (original story)
Pencils
Barry Windsor-Smith (credited as Barry Smith)
Inks
Sal Buscema (credited as Buscema); Dan Adkins (credited as Adkins)
Colors
Mimi Gold
Letters
Sam Rosen (credited)

Feature Logo
Conan the Barbarian!
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

Indexer Notes

Adapted from REH story "The God in the Bowl"; coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005]. Nick Caputo believes that Dan Adkins inked pages 1-6 and Sal Buscema inked the remainder.

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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Hyborian Page / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas
Letters
typeset

Feature Logo
The Hyborian Page
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mike Stamm, Michael N. Tierstein, David Milner

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. In the Coils of the Man-Serpent!
    Conan
  2. 1. The Lurker Within
    Conan
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Hyborian Page
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Wilhelm Dohmeier
  • David Haglund
  • emanuel maris
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore