- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- John Buscema
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (figures, pages 1, 7-16); Terry Austin (backgrounds, pages 1, 7-16); Dan Adkins (panel 2 of page 1, pages 2-6)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Torkal Moh
- Synopsis
- Setting: Western border wastelands. Flashback story of 15 year old Conan achieving manhood. Conan is captured by Torkal Moh.
- Reprints
- in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #6
- in Conan le Barbare (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #3 (octobre 1979)
- in Conan de barbaar (Oberon, 1981 series) #11 (december 1981)
- in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #94 ([julio 1986])
- in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #9/1993 ([august] 1993)
- in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #81 (December 1993)
- in Conan el bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1998 series) #49 (diciembre 1999)
- in The Chronicles of Conan (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #7 - The Dweller in the Pool and Other Stories (March 2005)
- in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 (2019)
- in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #4 - Queen of the Black Coast (2021)
Part 3 of 6. Dan Adkins inks the flashback sequence. Adapted from the Belmont novel "Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse" by Gardner F. Fox.