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Issue: Savage Tales #4
Publication Date: May 1974
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Issues: #4 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was an ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted From2
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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Savage Sword of Conan #15 published January 1979
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSavage Sword of Conan #1 published December 2007
as Savage Tales #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]with alterations
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Conan illustration on inside front and inside back covers.
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
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In Content Item: FlagConan Classic #9 published February 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSavage Sword of Conan #1 published December 2007
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory page to "Night of the Dark God".
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Night of the Dark God

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; nameless fisherman; Mala; Hagfar (in flashback); Mala's mother (in flashback); Tostig; Thorfel the Fair; Vanir; nameless Mithra priest; Brogar (Pict chief); Picts; Yag-Kosha (in flashback); Man-Serpent (in flashback)
Synopsis: Conan travels home to Cimmeria only to discover that his childhood sweetheart, Mala, has been abducted by a band of Vanir raiders. He pursues them by boat and comes across a ship with dead Vanir and Picts next to a dark idol. Conan takes the idol and heads for the Isle of Swords, where Thorfel the Fair is about to marry Mala. But rather than giving herself to Thorfel, Mala kills herself. Conan kills Thorfel and receives unexpected help from a band of Picts who have come to the island looking for their dark idol.
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In Content Item: FlagSvärdet med Conan #2/1975 published May 1975
as Den svarta gudens natt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMundo de Aventuras Especial #6 published April 1976
as A Noite do Deus Negro [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black & White
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Treasury Edition #15 [Regular] published January 1977
as Night of the Dark God [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUne Aventure de Conan #3 published January 1977
as La nuit du dieu noir [Story on Interior Page(s)]Moins 3 page3 [Minus 3 pages]
In Content Item: FlagThe Savage Sword of Conan #15 published January 1979
as Night Of The Dark God [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #10 [Direct Edition] published February 1988
as Night of the Dark God [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMagnum #9/1992 published August 1992
as Gudens natt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSavage Sword of Conan #1 published December 2007
as Night of the Dark God [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Disclose Notes: Adapted from Robert E. Howard's story "The Dark God" (a non-Conan story).

Diverse Hands identification by Roy Thomas in the letters page of Savage Sword of Conan #2.
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Star-Crossed Swords

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, non-fiction
Character(s): Conan
First Line: We're back again -- and this time we mean it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Thomas discuss the return of Savage Tales to the publication schedule.
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Jason and His Electric Argonauts

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Heroic Fantasy in the Films
First Line: Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) is generally given credit for crating the genre called "sword-and-sorcery"...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Article includes movie stills from Jason and the Argonauts.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: From the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, the shining knights of Christendom launched a series of Crusades...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introduction page to the Crusader.
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Origin of the Crusader, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Crusader [El Alemain]; Saladin (villain, introduction); Sir Guy De Montfort (villain, introduction); Richard the Lion-Hearted (introduction)
First Line: Like sand drifting over the desert, the savage hordes slipped unseen around King Richard's camp!
Synopsis: Upon learning that he is actually Frankish nobility, the Saracen warrior known as El Alemein joins the Crusaders. Saladin appears and challenges King Richard the Lion-Hearted to a duel, but El Alemein offers to fight in the king's place and defeats Saladin. King Richard knights El Alemein and names him Lord O'Dare.
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From Content Item: FlagBlack Knight #2 published July 1955
was Origin of the Crusader, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Hour of the Gnome

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Artists of Conan
Character(s): Conan
First Line: By now, nearly everybody knows the story by heart:..
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Green to civilization and entirely lawless by nature...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introduction to "The Dweller in the Dark".
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The Dweller in the Dark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Yulek; Queen Fatima; Yaila
First Line: Ho, desert-rat!
Synopsis: Conan becomes Captain of the royal guard in the small city-state of Zahmahn as well as the lover of Queen Fatima. When the Queen catches Conan with the servant girl Yaila in a delicate situation, she leaves them in the dungeon to be devoured by the Dweller in the Dark. They manage to escape, however, and Conan throws the Queen to the monster. According to tradition, Zahmahn can only be ruled by a female sovereign, so Conan nominates Yaila as the new queen.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSvärdet med Conan #2/1975 published May 1975
as Monstret i underjorden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSavage Sword of Conan #1 published December 2007
as The Dweller in the Dark [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagConan the Barbarian #12 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1971
was The Dweller in the Dark [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Barry Smith confirmed as inker in letters page of Conan the Barbarian #16.
Pages 3, 4, 5, and 14 appear here in their original uncensored form (they were partially redrawn due to Comics Code objections when first published in Conan the Barbarian #12).
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Conan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Subscription ad for Marvel magazines includes a barbarian illo by Buscema and Chan.

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