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Issue: Conan the Barbarian #21

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Publication Date: December 1972

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Issues: #21 of 275 Issues (613 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co., Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: £0.06 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #11, 100, 115)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Conan the Barbarian #21 [U.S. Cover Price]

Conan the Barbarian #21 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (4 total)

The Monster of the Monoliths!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Conan

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Pages: 1

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

The Monster of the Monoliths!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Conan; Melissandra; Kharam-Akkad; Yezdigerd; Balthaz; King Eannatum (introduction); Khurusan (introduction, death); Justin the Blind Hermit (introduction, death); Xuthltan

Synopsis: Setting: Makkalet. Conan is taken captive in Makkalet when he defects from the Turanian army. Conan joins and is betrayed by Makkalet forces. Conan fights giant toad-god.

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Pages: 20

Notes: Inspired by Robert E Howard story 'The Black Stone'. Smith credit changed from sketches to layout, based on splash page credits and info derived from letters pages.

According to an interview with Craig Russell in Conan: The Jewels of Gwahlur, only the first page and a couple of separate panels were fully drawn by Barry Smith, Val Mayerik completed figure work and Russell backgrounds. Inker Dan Adkins fell behind and called on them to do finished inks. In Back Issue #67 Russell stated he along with Val Mayerik did the finished pencil work, with Russell, Mayerik and Mark Kersey completing the inking.

Roussos coloring credit per Roy Thomas (2018, 116).
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Reference:

Thomas, Roy. 2018. Barbarian Life: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian, Volume One. N.p.: Pulp Hero Press.

Dramatic Data, Dynamic Dispatches, and Death-Defying Declarations of Decidedly Dubious Distinction!

In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items, Mighty Marvel Checklist, house ad for Frankenstein series.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Dean Mullaney, James Edward Smith, Scott Olsen, Duffy Vohland, Gary Oppenhuis, David Randolph III, John Kozak, Gary L. Robinson, and Danny G. Daniels.