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Cover: David Wenzel & Dan Adkins

Ka-Zar #18

Oct 1976 · Marvel · 0.30 USD
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“The Gnome, the Queen and the Savage!”

Ka-Zar, Lord of the Hidden Jungle, faces impossible odds in this October 1976 Marvel issue, as the cover by David Wenzel and Dan Adkins plunges the muscular jungle lord into a brutal arena battle against a horned, mace-wielding warrior named Makrum. A scantily clad queen watches from her throne above while a gnome-like figure crouches in the foreground, and the cover's bold declaration — "If Ka-Zar will not rule with me… he must DIE!" — sets the stakes with pulpy, sword-and-sorcery flair. With Doug Moench writing and Val Mayerik on interior art, this "Arena of Death!" chapter promises the kind of savage adventure that made Ka-Zar one of Marvel's most distinctive heroes of the era.

writer Doug Moench · artist, inker Val Mayerik · colorist George Roussos · letterer Gaspar Saladino · letterer Karen Mantlo · cover David Wenzel, Dan Adkins

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artist, inker Val Mayerik
letterer Karen Mantlo
cover pencils David Wenzel
cover inks Dan Adkins

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Queen Tandylla/Tandy Snow gives Ka-Zar an ultimatum: either become her husband or die in the arena. Ka-Zar rejects her offer and ends up in the arena together with Zartros the Gnome. They kill a gladiator named Makrum and manage to escape. Zartros reveals that Tandy has been brainwashed into becoming queen, and Ka-Zar vows to return and free her. Meanwhile, the rest of Ka-Zar's friends have come across a city full of elderly people. But something is very wrong; Kirk Marston has made a pact with the inhabitants and betrays his friends.

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