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The Savage Sword of Conan, #52

Published: May 1980

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The Savage Sword of Conan #52

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Issue Contents:
The Crown and the Carnage
1 page sword and sorcery
Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Story 1 1 page sword and sorcery
Storyline

Conan standing with a bloody sword over his head and a dagger in his left hand held up and to the side while surrounded by warriors in armor.

Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Story Notes

frontispiece

Table of Contents
Story 2 1 page
Characters
  • Conan
  • Numedides
Credits
Story 3 1 page

"The story so far: With the aid of the strange satyr-folk who inhabit the hills of Poitain..."

Credits
Story Notes

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

Conan the Liberator
Story 4 44 pages sword and sorcery
Characters
  • Conan
  • Dexitheus
  • Trocero
  • Prospero
  • Publius
  • Gyrto
  • Silvanus (death)
  • Alcina
  • Thulandra Thuu
  • Numedides (death)
Credits
Story Notes

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

The Chan Barbarians
Story 5 2 pages sword and sorcery
Storyline

Conan on foot amidst a horde of warriors, a large mace in his left hand and a bloody sword in his right with a large fire and column of smoke in the background.

Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Solomon Kane, Puritan Swashbuckler
Story 6 2 pages sword and sorcery
Storyline

Solomon Kane, leaning forward on his left leg with his right leg stretched behind him, in front of a large skull and crossbones, with a vulture perched on one of the bones and more vultures flying in the background.

Characters
  • Solomon Kane
Credits
Conan Faces Yag-Kosha
Story 7 2 pages sword and sorcery
Storyline

Conan standing with one foot on top of a two-step dais, upraised sword in his right hand and a dagger in his left, facing a seated Yag-Kosha.

Characters
  • Conan
  • Yag-Kosha
Credits
Story Notes

A scene from "The Tower of the Elephant".

Story 8 2 pages sword and sorcery

"A panorama of Conan's loveliest comrads: Red Sonja, Bêlit , Valeria--and Miraaj, our ubiquitous cover girl."

Storyline

From left to right: a large image of Conan's head, with Miraaj laying below it; left side Valeria's head; Red Sonja standing with sword and dagger in hand; Bêlit's upper body.

Characters
  • Conan
  • Red Sonja
  • Bêlit
  • Valeria
  • Miraaj
Credits
King Kull, Tiger of Atlantis - Monarch of Valusia
Story 9 2 pages sword and sorcery
Storyline

Kull, holding a double-headed ax in his right hand with his left arm held up and forward, standing over an unconscious woman on a dais, a smoking urn near her head, with a very large head of a tiger, mouth open, in the background.

Characters
Credits
A Witch Shall Be Born
Story 10 2 pages sword and sorcery
Storyline

Conan crucified on a wooden structure shaped like an 'X' on ground covered in skulls, with three vultures flying close to him and others in the background.

Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Story 11 1 page

"Because you demanded it!"

Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Story Notes

House ad for King Conan (Marvel, 1980 series) #2 including the cover.

Story 12 1 page

"Subscribe to The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian."

Characters
  • Conan
Credits
Story Notes

Includes a subscription form for black and white Marvel magazines.

Story 13 0 pages

"Are you a comics fan...?"

Story Notes

Subscription ad for The Comics Journal.

Story 14 2 pages
Characters
  • Conan
  • Belesa
  • Tina
Credits
Story Notes

Letters from Jon A. Opperman, Howard H. Huggins III, Dale R. Olsen, Tyson Blue, and Katherine H. Heintzman.