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Issue: Arak / Son of Thunder #17
Publication Date: January 1983
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Issues: #17 of 50 Issues (138 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/07/1982
Volume: 3
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893111301
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Roy Thomas (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #205.

This comic book appears in the movie "Dreamscape" (1984) starring Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw. The comic book (along with Adventure Comics #495) is lying on a coffee table about 11 minutes into the film.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Death in Byzantium!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales (signed)
Inker(s): Alfredo Alcala (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Arak, Son of Thunder
Character(s): Arak; Valda the Iron Maiden; Satyricus
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-208
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A Flame upon the Sea!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales
Inker(s): Alfredo Alcala
Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy
Letterer(s): Alfredo Alcala
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Arak, Son of Thunder
Character(s): Arak; Valda the Iron Maiden; Emperor; General Cometas; Satyricus; Irene; Aëtius; Theodota; Haakon the Viking; King Kalfron (Flashback); Angelica (Flashback); Huo Shih; Malagigi; Kallinikos
Synopsis: While fleeing from Byzantine guards, Arak meets up with a group of emissaries from White Cathay, headed by Haakon the barbarian. Haakon has come to Byzantium to exchange the secret of firecrackers for the secret of Greek Fire, a flame that burns on water. Empress Irene plans to demonstrate Greek fire to the emissaries, then send them away in scorn, but her vizier betrays her and Arak has to kill him to protect the royal family. Nevertheless, Arak is taken prisoner by the traitors and has to watch as the ship containing the royals and his own friends is set aflame.
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Pages: 16
Job Number: J-8501
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Scroll Call
First Line: Dear People, I just picked up the...
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-1175
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from readers David Tompkins, Kate Coffee, Scott "Catspaw" Dutton, Tony St. Clair, Mike Sopp, and T. M. Maple.
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Isle of the City, Isle of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Danette Thomas
Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales
Inker(s): Alfredo Alcala
Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy
Letterer(s): Alfredo Alcala
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Valda the Iron Maiden
Character(s): Valda the Iron Maiden; Malagigi; Greeramada; St. Denys (Flashback); Brunello
Synopsis: Valda and Malagigi visit one of the sorcerer's old lovers, the lovely Greeramada. However, Greeramada has been corrupted over the years. They find out that she has contracted Brunello (a previous, less-than-pleasant acquaintance of Valda's) to steal the remains of St. Denys. With these relics, she plans to reanimate the saint and force him to give her unspeakable power.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: J-8476

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