Conan the Barbarian
#136
[Direct]
(July 1982)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-04-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Louise Simonson (editor); Danny Fingeroth (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #10.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in [no title indexed]
Conan / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Dratha
- Reprints
in ![Cover Thumbnail for Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #136 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/20/w200/20124.jpg?-3809253070416668336)
![Cover Thumbnail for Conan the Barbarian (1970 series) #136 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/785/w100/785897.jpg?6224229127667107670)
A Cracker Jack Story
Scottie; Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Continuity Associates ?
- Colors
- Continuity Associates ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi ?
- Genre
- sports; teen
- Characters
- Scottie; Coach
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Comic strip ad for the Cracker Jack snack from Borden.
The River of Death
Conan / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Bruce Jones
- Pencils
- John Buscema
- Inks
- Danny Bulanadi; Mel Candido
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- Janice Chiang
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At the northeast corner of Gunderland, flanked eastward by the Bossonian marshes.....
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Conan; Dratha [Demoness of the River] (first appearance; villain; death); Eral (first appearance); Kalara (first appearance; death); Kalara's child (first appearance); Dralos (first appearance); Monks (die)
- Synopsis
- Conan saves Kalara's child from the Monks, who sought to sacrifice her to the river demon, Dratha. Allying with Kalara's brother, Eral, Conan kills Dratha to save the child. Conan and Eral let Dralos, another river demon, reclaim the child after discovering it is his son.
- Reprints
-
in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #15 -
in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #45 ([septiembre 1984]), #46 ([octubre 1984]) -
in Super Conan (Mon Journal, 1985 series) #3 (15 novembre 1985) -
in Conan (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1990 series) #10/2000 ([september] 2000)
-
- Keywords
- Black River [Yaba Nutchi]; Bossonian Marshes; Gunderland; Loch Gildis [Lake of Gold]; Thunder River
A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Woods of Oakthorn]
Dungeons & Dragons / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Grimslade; Indel; Oakthorn; Saren; Valerius
Indexer Notes
Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [Grindal the Mentor] and [The Black Swamp of Lobella].
[no title indexed]
The Hyborian Page / letters page / 0.7 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Randy Cabe, Mark Morey, Ben Frazier, John Langan, Jeff Kellner and Carlos Dominguez.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Conan -
1.
A Cracker Jack Story
Scottie; Cracker Jack -
2.
The River of Death
Conan -
3.
A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [The Woods of Oakthorn]
Dungeons & Dragons -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Hyborian Page
This issue was modified by, among others
- ge.org.e
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Daniel Block
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Magdalene Swift
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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