Conan the Barbarian #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeConan the Barbarian #29 marks a meaningful narrative pivot in the Marvel series: it is the issue in which Conan first arrives in Aghrapur, the capital of Turan, setting in motion his long and complicated relationship with that powerful eastern kingdom — a thread that would run through many subsequent stories. The issue also exemplifies Roy Thomas's broader editorial mission of mining Robert E. Howard's entire pulp catalog, not just the Conan stories, for source material: the plot is adapted from an unfinished non-Conan Howard draft, demonstrating how Thomas and his team actively expanded the Hyborian world by conscripting Howard's other genres. It falls squarely within the early Buscema era, a transitional stretch of the series when John Buscema was cementing his identity as the definitive Conan artist after Barry Windsor-Smith's departure.
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The story 'Two Against Turan!' was scripted by Roy Thomas, penciled by John Buscema, and inked by Ernie Chan — credited at the time under the pen name 'Ernie Chua.' It was adapted from an unpublished Robert E. Howard story known as 'Two Against Tyre,' a historical fiction piece featuring a Gaulish barbarian named Eithriall, which had first appeared in print in The Howard Collector #12 (Spring 1970). Thomas transplanted the basic setup to the Hyborian Age, replaced the Phoenician city of Tyre with Turan's capital Aghrapur, and added a supernatural sorcery element absent from the purely historical Howard source text. The issue was released on May 22, 1973, with an August 1973 cover date.
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- Title: 'Two Against Turan!' — story adapted by Roy Thomas from Robert E. Howard's unpublished non-Conan manuscript 'Two Against Tyre,' featuring the Gaulish hero Eithriall.
- Creative team: Script by Roy Thomas; pencils by John Buscema; inks by Ernie Chan (credited as 'Ernie Chua').
- Release date: May 22, 1973; cover date: August 1973.
- The adaptation is notable for Thomas adding a sorcery subplot — specifically, two separated halves of a wizard named Eithriall/Ormraxes who must reunite to become all-powerful — an element entirely absent from Howard's original historical fiction source.
- The issue marks the beginning of Conan's sustained involvement with the kingdom of Turan: the story ends with Conan conscripted into the Turanian army, a precarious position given his antagonistic relationship with Prince Yezdigerd.
- Eithriall (as the character Ormraxes) appears in the Marvel Conan continuity for the first time in this issue.
- The issue was reprinted in Dark Horse Comics' Chronicles of Conan, Volume 5: 'The Shadow in the Tomb and Other Stories' (2004), part of Dark Horse's digitally recolored 34-volume reprint of the complete original Marvel run.
- The issue also appears in Marvel's own Conan the Barbarian Epic Collection, Vol. 2 (2019), which collects issues #27–51 plus additional material.
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Reprinted in Conan #4 (1978), Conan de barbaar #3 (1979), Conan el Bárbaro #75 (1985), Conan el Bárbaro #83 (1986), Conan el Bárbaro #84 (1986), Magnum #8/1987 (1987), Conan Saga #66 (1992), Conan, Barbaren #1 (1993), Conan el bárbaro #29 (1999), The Chronicles of Conan #5 (2004), Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus #2 (2019), Conan le barbare : L'intégrale #1973 (2020), Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection #3 (2021), Conan #3, Conan e Kazar #3, Conan le Barbare #14, Conan the Barbarian #10, Conan The Barbarian: The Original Comics Omnibus #2, Condor-Superhelden #3
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