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Conan the Barbarian, #16 Regular Edition

Published: July 1972

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Issue Contents:
Night of the Frost-Giants!

Story Featuring Conan

Credits
Story Notes

Coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005]

The Frost Giant's Daughter

Story Featuring Conan

"The clangor of the swords has died away..."

Storyline

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.

Credits
Story Notes

Adapted from the short story by Robert E. Howard; coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005] This story exists in several different versions. The original version was published in Savage Tales #1, 11 pages in black and white. The second version was published in Conan the Barbarian #16 with an extra splash page, in total 12 pages in color (with some nudity covered up). The third version was published in Savage Sword of Conan #1, 12 pages in black and white (original black-and-white version plus the extra splash page with ink washes applied).

The Sword and the Sorcerers!

Story Featuring Starr the Slayer

"By all the gods of the great abyss!"

Storyline

Setting: Zardath. In this early prototype of Conan, Starr the Slayer kills a Wizard, then travels to the present and kills his writer.

Credits
Story Notes

Smith recolored story, as noted in the letters page.

The Hyborian Age of Conan

Story Featuring Conan

Credits
Incredible, Inedible Info to Stun Your Six Senses and Soothe Your Secret Soul!

In-House Column Featuring Bullpen Bulletins

Credits
Story Notes

Items; Stan Lee's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.

Letter Column Featuring The Hyborian Page

Story Notes

Roy Thomas is referred to in the third person in the letter response to Jeffrey May. Therefore Roy Thomas does not have a credit for script. Special Surprise Note; letters from Tom Steinke and Jeffrey May.

If You Had Mailed This Coupon a Year Ago...

"Perhaps your salary would be up too!"

Story Notes

Back cover.

3 Complete Fishing Outfits
Story Notes

Interior back cover.

Hey Kids! Put Me On!

"I'm the one and only Hush Puppies® T-shirt."

These 3 Big Drafting Kits Given to You

"When you train at home with NASD for a high pay job in drafting!"

Boys! Earn $1 to $6 a Week - Sell Grit in Your Spare Time

"Dad, how can I make some extra money?"

Story Notes

Mail coupon addressed to Grit Publishing Co. in Williamsport, PA.

Market Place
Story Notes

Full page of non-novelty advertisements.

Shop by Mail
Story Notes

Full page of non-novelty advertisements in separate areas of the comic book.

Free... Any 3 Stereo LPs or Any 1 Tape Shown Here

"With no obligation to buy anything ever!"

Story Notes

Centerspread advertisement.

Wear the Badge of The Future in... Conservation

"Choose your exciting outdoor career..."

Strategy & Tactics

"Want to know what it's like to fight in Vietnam?"

Don't Be Half a Man!

"The insult that made a man out of 'Mac'"

The End of the Skinny Body

"Another Joe Weider breakthrough"

Story Notes

Interior front cover.