Conan the King #28 [Direct]
(May 1985)

Marvel, 1984 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.25 USD; 0.50 GBP; 1.50 CAD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1985-01-01
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Larry Hama (editor); Pat Redding (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #63.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Conan / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mary Wilshire (signed)
Inks
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed)
Colors
?
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Red Sonja
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Call of the Wild (Table of Contents: 1)

Conan / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Zelenetz (credited)
Pencils
Marc Silvestri (signed)
Inks
Geof Isherwood (signed)
Colors
George Roussos
Letters
Rick Parker
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan; Red Sonja; Prospero; Publius; Trocero; Black Dragons [Captain Tarquin]; Lady Radegund; Taurus; Queen Zenobia; Lysander; Queen Ayelet; Sacred Minister of Mitra; Shemite soldiers; Baron Maloric (mentioned); Kushite Guardsmen (die); Necromancer (corpse)
Synopsis
Conan is informed that Queen Ayelet has been captured and he sends troops to investigate. Conan helps Red Sonja raid a Death Barge and rethinks his kingship. Red Sonja leaves him behind and Conan attends his daughter's birthday.
Reprints
Keywords
Aquilonia; Black Boar Inn; Death Barge; Eye of the Necromancer; horses; Royal Castle; Royal Woods; Tarantia; Temple of Mitra

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

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Tanya Sempf, Myles Reiff, Mark Salom, Charles David Haskell, and Trevor MacDonald. This Page also contains the Statement of Ownership.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Conan
  2. 1. Call of the Wild
    Conan
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    King Conan
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Daniel Block
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Enrico Menin
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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