Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #8
Published April 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Dick Giordano; Dave Manak (Associate Editor)

Cover Details - "The Arena of the Black Pope"

Characters Arak; Iron Maiden [Valda]
Genre sword and sorcery
Pencils Ernie Colón (signed)
Inks Ernie Colón (signed)

19 page Arak, Son of Thunder story "Arena of the Black Pope!"

Characters Arak; Iron Maiden [Valda]; Pope Hadrian; Black Pope; Malagigi
Synopsis Arak and Valda rescue the Pope from his evil counterpart.
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Roy Thomas (plot); Mike W. Barr (script)
Pencils Ernie Colon
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Adrienne Roy
Letters John Costanza

6 page Viking Prince story "Frozen Hell for a Viking!"

Characters Viking Prince [Jon]; Gorra
Genre sword and sorcery
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Jan Duursema
Inks Jan Duursema
Colors Adrienne Roy
Letters Shelly Leferman

1 page letters page "Scroll Call"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Rick Snodie, Barbara Earl, Mary Gibbs, Steve Lambey, Sharon Miller, Harold Baird and Pam Miller.