The Savage Sword of Conan, #50

Published: March 1980

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The Savage Sword of Conan #50

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Issue Contents:
Swords Across the Alimane
1 page sword and sorcery
Characters
  • Conan
Story 1 1 page sword and sorcery
Storyline

Conan, standing with legs bent, holding a kneeling woman's wrist with his left hand and a sword in is right, facing stone-axe wielding savages on a rise above him.

Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Table of Contents
Story 2 1 page
Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Story Notes

Illustration from page 27 of the fourth sequence.

Story 3 1 page

"The story so far: Conan's rebellion against King Numedides of Aquilonia is going badly."

Credits
Story Notes

Includes a map of the Hyborian age of Conan showing Aquilonia, Poitain, Argos, Ophir, and Zingara.

Swords Across the Alimane
Story 4 49 pages sword and sorcery

"It is the day after Conan's sore defeat at the hands of Amulius Procus and the Aquilonian Border Legion..."

Characters
  • Conan
  • Dexitheus
  • Trocero
  • Prospero
  • Publius
  • Pallantides
  • Milo
  • Arcadio
  • Cassio
  • Gromel
  • Alcina
  • Quesado
  • Fadius
  • Vibius Latro
  • Amulius Procas (death)
  • Ascalante (introduction)
  • Hsiao
  • Thulandra Thuu
  • Numedides
Credits
Story Notes

Adapted from L. Sprague de Camp's and Lin Carter's novel, Conan the Liberator (Bantam Books, 1979). Continued in next issue. Joe Rosen credit from Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel 2019 series) #4.

Conan at Fifty
Story 5 4 pages

"Fifty issues. Half a hundred. As we've already queried on this issue's content page--who'd have thunk it?"

Credits
Story Notes

Retrospective of the first 50 issues by a "Nameless Editor". Roy Thomas is credited in the Table of Contents. Includes covers from The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #1, 5, 7, 10, 24, and 40.

Story 6 2 pages
Story Notes

Letters from Kenneth Caton, Bojan Djukic, and Jeff P. Swycaffer.