Arak / Son of Thunder
#27
[Direct]
(November 1983)
DC,
1981 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-07-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor); Nicola Cuti (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Arak, Son of Thunder / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ron Randall (signed)
- Inks
- Ron Randall (signed)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (sourced)
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Arak; Dyanna
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When Dead Gods Walk!
Arak, Son of Thunder / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas (co-plotter)
- Pencils
- Ron Randall
- Inks
- Ron Randall
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- Bob Lappan
- Job Number
- J-8948
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Arak; Satyricus; Claudus; Irene; General Cometas; Dyanna; Dziewona (flashback); Valerus
- Synopsis
- Arak rescues a captured pagan priestess from being burned alive, which upsets a Byzantine crowd that was expecting entertainment. With the Byzantines now turned against him, Arak watches as the priestess brings several holy effigies to life to attack the crowd. When Arak intervenes to save the life of General Cometas, the priestess relents and they all ride off on animated gold horses.
- Reprints
-
in Démon (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #5 (janvier 1986) [N&B/B&W]
-
[no title indexed]
Scroll Call / letters page / 0.67 page
- Job Number
- L-1443
Indexer Notes
Features letters from Danny Lord, George A. Williams, and Donavon R. Ice Jr. The lower third of the page is a promo advertisement for Dial "H" for Hero in Superboy.
Red Corpse Riding
Valda the Iron Maiden / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas
- Pencils
- Ron Randall
- Inks
- Tom Yeates
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- Andy Kubert
- Job Number
- J-8959
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Valda; Malagigi
- Synopsis
- Returning the Frankish king's court, Valda and Malagigi rest in a glade and recall how Valda came to be Baledor's prisoner before meeting Arak. It began when she was training with the other knights and a familiar rider named Creston approached. With his last dying breaths, Creston declared he had been killed by the arch-angel Michael.
- Reprints
- in Arak (Arédit-Artima, 1986 series) #10 (mai 1987)
-
[no title indexed]
Arak, Son of Thunder / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas (explanatory note)
- Pencils
- Ernie Colón (signed)
- Inks
- Ernie Colón (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Arak
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Arak, Son of Thunder -
1.
When Dead Gods Walk!
Arak, Son of Thunder -
2.
[no title indexed]
Scroll Call -
3.
Red Corpse Riding
Valda the Iron Maiden -
4.
[no title indexed]
Meanwhile... -
5.
[no title indexed]
Arak, Son of Thunder
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- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Michael Hoskin
- Shan McLaughlin
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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