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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published October 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"

Characters Conan
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 #15"

Characters Conan; Elric
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (signed)
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (signed)
Letters Barry Windsor-Smith
Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #15 (May 1972) [originally in color]

21 page Conan; Elric of Melnibone story "The Green Empress of Melnibone"

Characters Conan; Elric (guest star); Zukala; Zephra (Death); Arkyn (introduction); Arioch (villain, introduction); Terhali (Death); Kulan-Gath; Xiombarg (Death); Prince Gaynor the Damned
Synopsis Conan and Elric have an un-easy truce while they ride to the sunken city known as Yagala. Once there they have to face Xiombarg, Prince Gaynor the Damned, Kulan-Gath and Terhali. When their combined power is not enough to defeat them Arkyn must join the fight to help them.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas; Michael Moorcock (plot); James Cawthorn (plot)
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Inks Sal Buscema; Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Letters John Costanza
Notes Elric of Melnibone created by Michael Moorcock.
Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #15 (May 1972) [originally in color]

1 page Conan cover reprint (on interior page) "cover for Conan the Barbarian #16"

Characters Conan
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters Barry Windsor-Smith
Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #16

12 page Conan story "The Frost Giant's Daughter"

Characters Conan; Hymdul; Horsa; Niord; Gorm; Atali; Frost Giants
Synopsis 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.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Robert E. Howard (Original prose story); Roy Thomas
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Adapted from Robert E. Howard's short story.
Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972) [which was reprinted from Savage Tales (Marvel, 1971 series) #1 (May 1971) with one page added and some editing]

1 page Conan cover reprint (on interior page) "cover for Conan the Barbarian #19"

Characters Conan
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters Barry Windsor-Smith
Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #19

20 page Conan story "Hawks from the Sea!"

Characters Conan; Fafnir
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Dan Adkins
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #19 (October 1972)

7 page Starr the Slayer story "The Sword and the Sorcerers!"

Characters Starr the Slayer
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters Jean Izzo
Notes Starr was a pre-cursor to Conan.
Reprinted from Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #4 (April 1970)