Conan the Barbarian #64 [30¢]

(July 1976)

The Secret of Skull River! (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited); John Jakes (credited) (plot)

Pencils

Jim Starlin (credited)

Inks

Al Milgrom (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Denise Wohl ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Someone savage this way comes!

Feature Logo

Conan the Barbarian [splash page masthead, curved letters]

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

Conan; Hanuman; Grandall; Naia; Thuribald; Sophos; Anaximander

Synopsis

Setting: countryside and village. Conan saves village from evil wizard dumping toxic waste in the river.

Reprints

• from Savage Tales (Marvel, 1971 series) #5 (July 1974) [minus 1 page]
• in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 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

A note on the splash page explains that inker Steve Gan could not complete the story on time necessitating a reprint.

Story takes place between Conan the Barbarian (Marvel 1970, series) #'s 44 & 45. Story was originally presented in Savage Tales (Marvel, 1971 series) #5 in black & white.

Page count reduced by 1 page from original Savage Tales #5 story by combining parts of page 9 and 10, resizing panels and redrawing characters in one of the panels.

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