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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published September 1984
Frequency Bi-monthly
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jim Owsley

Cover Details

Characters Prince Taurus; Mad Zandra
Genre Sword and sorcery
Pencils Mike Kaluta; Charles Vess (signed)
Inks Mike Kaluta; Charles Vess (signed)
Colors Mike Kaluta; Charles Vess (signed)

25 page King Conan story "Fragments: A Witch's Tale"

Characters King Conan; Prince Taurus; Mad Zandra; Prospero; Dexitheus; Councilor Publius; Black Dragons [Leonidas; Hrolf; Tarquin; Syan-Lin]; Prince Conn
Synopsis The flaming bird brings Prince Taurus to Mad Zandra, who begins teaching the young Prince dark magic. King Conan searches for Taurus with the help of the priest, Dexitheus, and his Black Dragons. As they grow closer to Taurus, Zandra changes Taurus into a black goat to disguise him from his father. King Conan is able to thwart Zandra and burns her cottage down with the black goat inside. Taurus uses Zandra's grimoire to turn back to human shape but gets interrupted by his father, so his incomplete transformation leaves him with a goat hoof instead of a foot. King Conan takes Taurus back home, but Zandra tries to use her amulet to get the boy back. However, not realizing King Conan has two sons, she ends up getting Prince Conn instead.
Genre Sword and sorcery
Script Alan Zelenetz
Pencils Dave Simons
Inks Geof Isherwood
Colors George Roussos
Letters Richard Parker

13 page Prince Conn story "Having survived his first taste of slavery ..."

Characters Prince Conn; Mad Zandra; King Conan; Prince Taurus; Tarquin
Synopsis Prince Conn is headed for the gallows for allegedly murdering the rich merchant in Numalia. However, just as he is about to hang, he vanishes and reappears in the forest before a stunned Mad Zandra. After hearing what has transpired, Prince Conn runs off to find his father but encounters his brother first. Taurus realizes that Conn stands in his way to become the Crown Prince and joins forces with Zandra to whisk Conn to another location. Before Conn vanishes, King Conan sees him and thinks he has seen a ghost.
Genre Sword and sorcery
Script Alan Zelenetz
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Colors George Roussos
Letters Richard Parker
Notes The Prince Conn stories run along side the Conan The King stories to show what each is doing after they have been separated.