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Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	September 1987
Cover Price	$2.00
Pages	68
Editing	Mike Higgins

Cover Details

Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith
Colors	Barry Windsor-Smith

1 page Conan illustration "frontispiece - pencils for cover without cropping for text"

Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith

1 page Conan cover reprint (on interior page) "cover for Conan the Barbarian #12"

Characters	Conan
Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Ralph Reese
Letters	Sam Rosen
Reprinted	from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #12

16 page Conan story "Dweller in the Dark"

Characters	Conan
Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters	Sam Rosen
Reprinted	from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (December 1971)

1 page Conan illustration "unpublished version of the cover for Conan the Barbarian #13"

Characters	Conan
Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith

22 page Conan story "Web of the Spider-God"

Characters	Conan
Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas; John Jakes
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks	Sal Buscema
Letters	Sam Rosen
Reprinted	from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #13 (January 1972)

2 page Hyborian Age illustration "The Hyborian Age of Conan"

Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Script	Tony Edwards; Eliot R Brown
Pencils	Tony Edwards (design); Eliot R Brown (design)
Inks	Tony Edwards (design); Eliot R Brown (design)
Notes	Hyborian Regional maps done in five sections. Based on a map by Robert E Howard. This is the centerfold.

1 page Conan cover reprint (on interior page) "cover for Conan the Barbarian #14"

Characters	Conan; Elric
Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (signed)
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (signed)
Reprinted	from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #14 (March 1972) [originally in color]

21 page Conan; Elric of Melnibone story "A Sword Called Stormbringer!"

Characters	Conan; Sorcerer-King Elric of Melnibone; Zephra; Zukala; Kulan-Gath (cameo); Terhali; Xiombarg; Prince Gaynor the Damned; Marduk
Synopsis	Setting: Koth grasslands; Conan saves Zephra's life, fights against and later with Elric. Conan fights to save Hyborea and Melnibone from Queen Xiombarg.
Genre	Sword and Sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas; Michael Moorcock (plot); James Cawthorn (plot)
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Inks	Sal Buscema
Letters	John Costanza
Notes	Elric of Melnibone created by Michael Moorcock.
Reprinted	from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #14 (March 1972) [originally in color]