Conan the Barbarian #164 [Newsstand]
(November 1984)

Marvel, 1970 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-08-07
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Barcode
0714860249811
Editing
Larry Hama (editor); Christopher Priest [as Jim Owsley] (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #52, with shipping date of 1984-07-17.
This issue is a variant of Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #164 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Armando Gil (signed)
Inks
Armando Gil (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; a Dark Angel
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Jeweled Sword of Tem (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Larry Yakata
Pencils
Gary Kwapisz
Inks
Gary Kwapisz
Colors
George Roussos
Letters
Janice Chiang
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Veden Kamal (dies); Veden's brothers (dead, mentioned); Maheeva; Yuetshi Sorcerer (mentioned); Snow Apes (die); Dark Angels [Atyah (dies)]
Synopsis
Conan seeks a jeweled sword to free a wizard. On the journey, he teaches young Veden how to survive.
Reprints
Keywords
Aesgaard; Frozen Mountains; the Jewelled Sword of Tem; the Valley of Eternal Darkness; Tomb of the Dark Angels; Unquiet River; Virgin's Deceit; wolves; Zamora; Zamoran Steppes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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

The Hyborian Page / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Don Pawl, Robert del Valle, Kenneth R. Dasson, Richard Toogood, Daniel Landry, Brian Slattery, Eric James Baich, Marcus Webster and Garry Landreth.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Conan
  2. 1. Jeweled Sword of Tem
    Conan
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Hyborian Page
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  • Peter Croome
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Derek Reinhard
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