The Savage Sword of Conan #40

(May 1979)

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

Conan / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Tony Caravana (credited as Anton Caravana) (signed as Anton Caravana)

Inks

Tony Caravana (credited as Anton Caravana) (signed as Anton Caravana)

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan

Synopsis

Conan with sword in had facing a lizard creature coming from a woman's body.

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #4 (September 2008)
• 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

John Buscema

Inks

Tony DeZuniga

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

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At about the age of 37, Conan--who for a time has been one of the fierce Barachan pirates...

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.

A Dream of Blood (Table of Contents: 4)

Conan / comic story / 46 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

John Buscema (credited)

Inks

Tony DeZuniga (credited)

Letters

Joe Rosen (see notes)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is two hours before midnight when Princess Chabela awakes.

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Chabela (introduction); Gomani; Zeltran; Riego; Captain Kapellez; Sabral; Ninus; Cratos; Sigurd (introduction); Zarono (villain, introduction); Villagro (villain, introduction); Menkara (villain, introduction)

Reprints

• in The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #52, #53
• in Het bloedige zwaard van Conan de barbaar (Oberon, 1979 series) #3 - De droom van het bloed (1980)
• in Conan (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #6 - Rêve de sang (octobre 1982) [colorisé [colorized]]
• in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #42 (September 1990)
• in Super Conan 2ª Edición (Planeta DeAgostini, 1989 series) #12 (1992)
• in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #11/1994 ([oktober] 1994)
which is reprinted
• in Conan album (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1992 series) #45 - En drøm om blod! ([juli] 2003)
• in Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #4 (September 2008)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019), #3 (2019), #3 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the novel Conan the Buccaneer by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.
Continued in next issue.

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Next issue: In his search for the Cobra Crown, Conan becomes a--Slave of the Amazon Queen.

Characters

Conan

Indexer Notes

Includes a subscription form for black and white Marvel magazines.

A Gazetteer of the Hyborian World of Conan, Part 7 (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Lee N. Falconer (credited as Lee Falconer)

Pencils

Ernie Chan (signed as Ernie over Chan) (illustrations); ? (illustrations)

Inks

Ernie Chan (signed as Ernie over Chan) (illustrations); ? (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Conan; Red Sonja

Reprints

• in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #4/2000 ([mars] 2000), #6/2000 ([mai] 2000)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Information from Talakma Mountains to Vilayet Sea.

Don't Miss "The People of the Cataclysm" (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Ernie Chan

Inks

Ernie Chan

Letters

typeset

Characters

Conan

Synopsis

Conan, girl and monster fish.

Reprints

• in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #1/2003 (2003)

Indexer Notes

Announcing a tale based on Robert E. Howard's short story "The Voice of El-Lil" coming to the Conan the Barbarian newspaper comic-strip beginning March 26, 1979.

The (Almost) Forgotten Tales of Conan (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Blosser (credited); Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

Neal Adams (credited) (illustrations); Ernie Chan (credited) (illustrations)

Inks

Neal Adams (credited) (illustrations); Ernie Chan (credited) (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The voice is just as you always imagined it would be.

Synopsis

About the "Conan the Barbarian" record album released in 1976 + a 45 r.p.m. version packaged with a 20-page comics version of "The Crawler in the Mists".

Reprints

• in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) #3 (2019)
• in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #3 (2019)
• in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #5 - Of Once and Future Kings (2022)

Indexer Notes

Pages 58-61, 66.

Includes a comparison between a couple of pages of the 20-page comic and the version in the newspaper strip.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

?

Pencils

John Buscema (illustrations)

Inks

Alfredo Alcala (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters from Craig Livingston, Patrick Pirone, Bob Snow, and Eric Kelly.