(April 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-01-16
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #92, December 1972.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Conan: Serpent War (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
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The Valley of the Worm
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Niord
- Reprints
- in Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (May 2011) [recolored], #2 (May 2011) [black and white]
- in True Believers: Conan: Serpent War - The Valley of the Worm (Marvel, 2020 series) #0 (February 2020), #0 (February 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Nick Caputo originally credited Ralph Reese as inker but Reese, via Shaun Clancy, confirmed he did not ink this cover. He suggests the inker might be Gil Kane (29 June 2015). After looking the cover over again Nick agrees with Reese. Previous indexer credited Ernie Chan.
The Valley of the Worm!
comic story / 21 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (Adaptation); Gerry Conway (Adaptation); Robert E. Howard (Original Story)
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Ernie Chan
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- 1268Z?
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- James Allison; Niord (death); Bragi; Helga; Gorm; Satha (death); Perseus (cameo); Beowulf (cameo); Saint George (cameo); Siegfried (cameo)
- Reprints
-
in Dracula (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #5 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed] - in Kull and the Barbarians (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (May 1975)
- in L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. (Editions du Fromage, 1976 series) #8 (3e trimestre 1978)
- in Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (May 2011) [recolored]
- in True Believers: Conan: Serpent War - The Valley of the Worm (Marvel, 2020 series) #0 (February 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard. Letterer and colorist credits revealed in the letters section of issue # 5.
[no title indexed]
Thriller Fillers / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from Duane Hanson, Dave McDonnell, David Orloff, Earthwoman c/o Ms. Andra Thorpe, David Michelinie, Jeff Gorrell, John Driscoll, Michael Brown, Matt Howarth and Paul McGuire. Includes information on future issues and the Worlds Unknown and Amazing Adventures comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Valley of the Worm
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1.
The Valley of the Worm!
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2.
[no title indexed]
Thriller Fillers
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- Mike Nielsen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Darrel McCann
- Mark Q
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Steve Coates
- Rodrigo Baeza
- Peter Croome
- Chris Boyko
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