The Savage Sword of Conan #34

(October 1978)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ron Wilson (credited)

Inks

Joe Rubinstein (credited)

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan

Synopsis

Conan holding axe over his head.

Reprints

• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #44 (November 1990)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Carmine Infantino

Inks

Alfredo Alcala

Letters

typeset

Characters

Conan

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

recap / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

After his early adventures as a thief in Zamora and Corinthia...

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Includes a map of The Hyborian Age of Conan.

The Lair of the Ice Worm (Table of Contents: 4)

Conan / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (credited)

Inks

Alfredo Alcala (credited)

Letters

Gaspar Saladino (see notes)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

All day, the lone rider has breasted the slopes of the Eiglophian Mountains...

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Ilga (death); Atali (flashback); primitives; Ice Worm

Synopsis

Conan crosses snowy mountains on his way to more southern countries. He rescues the girl Ilga from a tribe of primitives, but she is later killed by the legendary Ice Worm. Conan strikes back and kills the Ice Worm with burning coals.

Reprints

• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #2/1985 ([februari] 1985)
• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1985 (uke 10 1985)
• in La Espada Salvaje de Conan el Bárbaro (Novedades, 1988 series) #32 (August 28, 1989)
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #37 (April 1990)
• in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #9/2000 ([august] 2000) [2. translation]
• in Collection The Savage Sword of Conan (Hachette, 2017 series) #11 (mars 2018)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

Keywords

Eiglophian Mountains; River of Death; Snow Devil Glacier

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the short story "The Lair of the Ice Worm" by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.

Gaspar Saladino lettering credit from "Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus" (Marvel, 2019 series) #3)

The Legend of Solomon Kane (Table of Contents: 5)

Solomon Kane / recap / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Blosser (credited)

Pencils

Bob Gould (signed as BG) (credited as Robert Gould)

Inks

Duffy Vohland (signed as DV)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Solomon Kane is a danger-seeking Puritan adventurer in the England of Queen Elizabeth I.

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Solomon Kane

Reprints

• in The Saga of Solomon Kane (Dark Horse, 2009 series) (July 2009)
• in Solomon Kane Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)

Moon of Skulls, Part 1 (Table of Contents: 6)

Solomon Kane / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Don Glut (credited) (adaptation); Robert E. Howard (credited) (original story)

Pencils

David Wenzel (credited)

Inks

Bill Wray (credited)

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Prologue: A great black shadow lies across the land, cleaving the red flame of sunset.

Feature Logo

A Tale of Solomon Kane

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Solomon Kane; Nakari (introduction)

Synopsis

Kane seeks the Vampire Queen of the Negari.

Reprints

• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #8/1985 (uke 31 1985)
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #42 (September 1990)
• in The Saga of Solomon Kane (Dark Horse, 2009 series) (July 2009)
• in Solomon Kane Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the short story "The Moon of Skulls" by Robert E. Howard.
Continued in The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #37.

Conan of Des Moines or, Son of Conan the Syndicated (Table of Contents: 7)

Conan / text article / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

John Buscema

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's ready at last--and we couldn't be more thrilled about it!

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Preview of the new daily and Sunday newspaper comic strip.

Mirrors of Tuzun Thune (Table of Contents: 8)

Kull / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

Mike Ploog (credited)

Inks

Mike Ploog (credited)

Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness...

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Kull; Tuzun Thune (villain; death); Brule

Synopsis

The restless King Kull is drawn to Tuzun Thune's house of a thousand mirrors, where he almost loses himself in his own reflection before Brule comes to his rescue.

Reprints

• in Comic Spiegel (Reiner-Feest-Verlag, 1983 series) #1 ([Januar] 1983)
• in Super Conan (Planeta DeAgostini, 1982 series) #6 ([Octubre] 1983)
• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #2/1985 ([februari] 1985)
• in Conan (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1985 (uke 10 1985)
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #24 (April 1989)
• in Pocketserien (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1995 series) #27 - Kong Kull - Dødens pass ([februar] 2001) [2. translation]
• in The Savage Sword of Kull (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (November 2010)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the short story "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" by Robert E. Howard.
The 8th and 9th pages of this story are switched/printed out of order. This would later be corrected in the reprinting in Conan Saga (Marvel 1987 series) #24. (From a report to the GCD errors list by Jeff Clem on 2010-12-03.)

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Conan / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Swords and Scrolls / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Frank Brunner (illustrations)

Inks

Frank Brunner (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Ed Via, Kyle Gray, Eric Leif Davin, Jubal Dobbs, Allen Pitt, and S. Fischer.