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Cover: Boris Vallejo

The Savage Sword of Conan #1

Aug 1974 · Marvel · 1.00 USD
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“Curse of the Undead-Man”

Marvel's black-and-white magazine format gave The Savage Sword of Conan room to breathe in 1974, and this premiere issue arrives with a Boris Vallejo cover that makes an immediate statement: a massively muscled Conan, sword raised and bloodied, battles a horde of skeletal undead warriors alongside a fierce red-haired woman who fights at his side with shield and axe. The tagline "Sword vs. Sorcery in a World Beyond Time" perfectly captures the supernatural menace swarming across the painted battlefield, with skulls and fallen enemies piled beneath the two warriors' feet. Inside, Roy Thomas adapts Robert E. Howard with art by Barry Smith — two Conan epics that made this oversized format an exciting new home for the Cimmerian's adventures.

writer Robert E. Howard · writer Roy Thomas · artist, inker Barry Smith · letterer Artie Simek · cover Boris Vallejo

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Cast · 19 characters

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writer Roy Thomas
artist, inker Barry Smith
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils, inks Boris Vallejo

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Setting: Snowy battlefield. Conan chases Atali across the snow, slays her two frost giant brothers, and catches her. Her father, Ymir then takes her from Conan.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

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