Conan the Barbarian #136 [Newsstand]

(July 1982)

A Cracker Jack Story (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Scottie; Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The River of Death (Table of Contents: 2)

Conan / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

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] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Dungeons & Dragons / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Hyborian Page / letters page / 0.7 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Randy Cabe, Mark Morey, Ben Frazier, John Langan, Jeff Kellner and Carlos Dominguez.