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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published August 1975
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 76
Editing Roy Thomas; Marv Wolfman (consulting editor); Archie Goodwin (consulting editor)

Cover Details

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Pencils Boris Vallejo (painting, signed)
Inks Boris Vallejo (painting, signed)
Colors Boris Vallejo (painting, signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

1 page Conan illustration "untitled"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Pencils Vicente Alcazar (signed)
Inks Vicente Alcazar (signed)
Notes Inside front cover.

1 page text article "Table of Contents"

Letters typeset
Notes Table of contents and indicia.

1 page Conan text story "untitled"

Script Robert E. Howard
Pencils ? (map)
Inks ? (map)
Letters typeset
Notes Excerpt from The Nemedian Chronicles and map of the Hyborian Age.
Reprinted in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #250 (November 1991) [with minor modifications]

8 page Conan story "The Citadel at the Center of Time"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

7 page Conan story "Part Two: In the Shadow of Fear"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

11 page Conan story "Part Three: Sorcerer's Trove"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

18 page Conan story "Part IV: Into Time's Abyss"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

4 page text article Crom and Mitra: Gods to Swear By - Part II of "The Gods of the Hyborian Age"

Characters Conan (illustrations)
Script Robert L. Yaple
Pencils Mike Vosburg (illustration, signed); ? (illustrations)
Inks Mike Vosburg (illustration, signed); ? (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes Includes full-page illustration of Conan by Vosburg and three small illustrations.

3 page text article "The King Is Dead - Part IV of Chronicles of the Sword: An Informal History of Sword-and-Sorcery Fiction"

Characters Conan (illustration)
Script Lin Carter
Pencils Gray Morrow (illustration, signed); ? (illustration)
Inks Gray Morrow (illustration, signed); ? (illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Includes full-page illustration of Conan by Morrow and one small illustration.

1 page Conan text story "Lines Written In the Realization That I Must Die"

Characters Conan (illustrations)
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Robert E. Howard
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (illustrations)
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes Copyright © 1946 by August Derleth for "Skullface and Others".
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #9 (January 1988)

6 page Conan story "The Hyborian Age - Chapter 1: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age"

Characters Conan
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Walter Simonson [as Walt Simonson]
Inks Walter Simonson [as Walt Simonson]
Letters Walter Simonson
Notes Adapted from the essay by Robert E. Howard. Letters credit from Walter Simonson via GCD Errors list, October 2009.
Reprinted in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #50 (May 1991)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Tired of Dueling With the Neighborhood Bully for the Latest Issue of the Savage Sword of Conan?"

Pencils Robert L. Kline (illustration, signed)
Inks Robert L. Kline (illustration, signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Promotional advertisement for this series. Illustration © 1972 by Gary Groth and Bob Kline.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "untitled"

Characters Conan (illustration)
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Promotional advertisement for the next issue and for the Savage Sword of Conan Special.

2 page letters page "Swords and Scrolls"

Characters Conan (sketch)
Script various
Pencils John Buscema (sketch)
Letters typeset
Notes Includes layout sketch for the cover of The Savage Sword of Conan #5 (April 1975).