- 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
- 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
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in Serie-nytt [delas?] (Semic, 1970 series) #8/1972 (1972) [first Swedish translation / första svenska översättningen] -
in Climax Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1962 ? series) #11 ([Circa 1971-1974]) -
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #53 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] -
in Giant-Size Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (June 1975) [-1 page] -
in Conan (Carlsen/if [SE], 1978 series) #1 (1978) [second Swedish translation / andra svenska översättningen] -
in Conan (Ace Books, 1978 series) #3 (11694) (1978) -
in Conan de barbaar (Oberon, 1979 series) #1 (1979) -
in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #1 (1979) -
in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #70 ([septiembre 1985]), #71 ([septiembre 1985]) -
in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #3 (July 1987) -
in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #1/1990 ([september] 1990) which is reprinted-
in Conan Saga (Comic Art, 1993 series) #2 (Agosto 1993) -
in Conan Classic (Marvel, 1994 series) #7 (December 1994) -
in Conan el bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1998 series) #7 (Abril 1998) -
in Essential Conan (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (July 2000) [black and white] -
in The Chronicles of Conan (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 - Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories (2003) -
in The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (February 2010) -
in Conan el Bárbaro. Edición 35 Aniversario (Planeta DeAgostini, 2017 series) (Marzo 2017) -
in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 ([January] 2019) -
in Conan le barbare : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2019 series) #1970-1971 (août 2019) -
in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 - The Coming of Conan (2020)
- Keywords
- Nemedia; Numalia
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.
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
- Reprints
Letters from Mike Stamm, Michael N. Tierstein, David Milner