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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published October 1974
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 84
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "Black Colossus"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Pencils Neal Adams (painting)
Inks Neal Adams (painting)
Colors Neal Adams (painting)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #10

1 page Conan illustration "pin-up: frontispiece"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Pencils Mike Zeck
Inks Mike Zeck
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #38

4 page Conan story "Black Colossus"

Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Notes Robert E. Howard adaption.
Reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #15 (1977); in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #12

13 page Conan story "Part II Hordes Of The Veiled One"

Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Notes Robert E. Howard adaption.
Reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #15 (1977); in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #12

19 page Conan story "Part III Chariot Of The Man-Demon"

Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Notes Robert E. Howard adaption.
Reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #15 (1977); in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #12

4 page Chronicles of the Sword text article "Chapter 1 Kingdoms of the Dawn"

Genre sword and sorcery
Script Lin Carter
Pencils Al Milgrom (signed); Alan Weiss (signed); Joe Staton (signed)
Inks Al Milgrom (signed); Joe Staton (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes The article contains 4 spot illustrations each signed by the artists. The Weiss illustrations is inked by Milgrom.

14 page Blackmark story "Blackmark Chapter II"

Genre sword and sorcery
Script Gil Kane; Archie Goodwin (script; uncredited)
Pencils Gil Kane [signed GK]
Inks Gil Kane [signed GK]
Letters typeset
Notes Adapted from Blackmark by Gil Kane (Bantam Books paperback, 1971) and scripted by Archie Goodwin from outlines supplied by Gil kane. This reprint does not credit Goodwin for his contribution.
Reprinted from Blackmark (Bantam Books, 1971 series) #S5871

10 page Kull story "The Beast from the Abyss"

Genre sword and sorcery
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Russ Heath [as The Crusty Bunkers]; Neal Adams [as The Crusty Bunkers]; Dick Giordano [as The Crusty Bunkers]; Alan Weiss [as The Crusty Bunkers]
Notes Adapted from Black Abyss by Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter. Crusty Bunkers credits confirmed in the letters page of Savage Sword of Conan #4.
Reprinted in Conan Annual (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (1977); in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #34; in Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #15

2 page letters page " Swords and Scrolls"

Letters typeset
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Contains inker credtis for the Diverse Hands job in Savage Tales #4 (Neal Adams, Pablo Marcos, Vince Colletta, Frank McLaughlin) and Conan the Barbarian #12 (Gil Kane, Tom Palmer, Berni Wrightson).