Conan the King #26 [Direct]
(January 1985)

Marvel, 1984 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1984-09-04
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley) (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #55, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-09-25.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

King Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta) (painted)
Inks
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta) (painted)
Colors
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta) (painted)

Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
King Conan

Passage (Table of Contents: 1)

King Conan / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Zelenetz (credited)
Pencils
Marc Silvestri (credited) (breakdowns)
Inks
Geof Isherwood (credited) (finishes)
Colors
George Roussos; George Roussos (credited)
Letters
Rick Parker (credited as Richard Parker)

Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
King Conan; Count Trocero; Trocero's father; Ghord; Queen Zenobia; Black Dragons [the Pict; Captain Tarquin]; Borkus; Prospero; Baron Maloric; Thoth-Amon; Leonidas (mentioned); Countess Amanda; Lady Radegund; Taurus; Dark Gods (mentioned); brigands
Synopsis
An aging and tired Count Trocero is returning to his home in Poitain, and suffers from disturbing dreams from his past. King Conan, believing his eldest son, Conn, dead, grows restless in his role as king, and Zenobia fears he may leave Tarantia soon. Prospero tests new recruits who wish to become Black Dragon legionnaires. Taurus finds a love note sent from Leonidas to Radegund. Once home, Trocero is reunited with his aged father, who can no longer remember his son, and with Amanda, the woman he fell in love with many years ago.
Reprints
Keywords
Aquilonia; Brythunian Weasels; deer; Royal Castle; Royal Ledger; Royal Woods; Tarantia

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

King Conan / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Larry Hama; Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from M. T. Lunsford, Edward Busey, Bernard Peters, Fransois Montauban, Steven Wieting, Mark Zak, Ken Dunckley, Bill Carr, Andy Heidt, Jim Chapman, K. J. Lindemuth and John Giordano.

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

Prince Conn / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Zelenetz
Pencils
Marc Silvestri
Inks
?
Colors
George Roussos (credited)
Letters
Rick Parker (credited as Richard Parker)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Six months have passed since Prince Conan II ...
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
King Conan (dream sequence); Prince Conn; Kang Lou-Dze; Li-Tan; Kang Sho; Queen Zenobia (in a dream sequence); Genjis (mentioned)
Synopsis
Prince Conn, disillusioned with his father after meeting his half-brother, Kang Sho, decides to settle in Paikang. He marries Li-Tan, the Khitai maiden he rescued, and suffers from dreams about his father's unfaithfulness to Zenobia with Kang Lou-Dze, who later gave birth to Kang Sho. With war looming, the villagers are forced to flee Paikang. Conn has dream sequence conversations with both his mother and father, and later decides to join with other Paikang warriors to fight in the upcoming war.
Reprints
Keywords
Paikang

Indexer Notes

This is the last installment of the Prince Conn series. The Prince Conn stories run along side the Conan the King stories to show what each is doing after they have been separated.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    King Conan
  2. 1. Passage
    King Conan
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    King Conan
  4. 3. ["Six months have passed since Prince Conan II ..."]
    Prince Conn
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Daniel Block
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Stangas
  • Richard Thomson
  • B K Tsuda