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Issue: The Savage Sword of Conan #44
Publication Date: September 1979
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860292909
Price: $1.00 USD
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Content Items: 14 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Swords of the Living Dead

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan
Reprinting
FlagConan #3 published January 1981
FlagConan Saga #45 [Direct Edition] published December 1990
as A Brutal Tale of Savage Lust! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan
Conan standing on a pile of debris with bloody sword in hand, a woman lying at his feet, with several flying creatures and a large skull in the background.
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Miscellaneous
1
Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Conan
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Eventually, Conan leaves the Zuagirs, whom he joined after his strange crucifixion,..
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1
The Star of Khorala

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan; Queen Marala; Captain Garus; Hostas; Rima; Doctor Khafrates; Torgrio; Junia; King Moranthes; Bulak; Barras; Rigello (villain, introduction, death); Naferari (flashback); Junghir Khan (flashback); Totrasmek (flashback)
The Wanton River stretches lazily between the kingdoms of Koth and Ophir...
Conan comes to Ophir looking to sell the Star of Khorala to Queen Marala, but Captain Garus tells him that the king has imprisoned the queen in a tower. Conan and Garus frees her, but are then pursued by the king's cousin Rigello and his men. They make their last stand in a ruin, but ultimately, they are saved by the ghost soldiers who served Marala's ancestor.
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FlagConan Saga #60 [Newsstand] published March 1992
as The Star of Khorala [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Adapted from the short story "The Star of Khorala" by Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp.

Joe Rosen lettering credit from "Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus" (Marvel, 2019 series) #3).

Queen Marala becomes Countess Albiona by Giant-Size Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #3
Notes on Hyborian Heraldry and Cartography

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Special introductory note: With this issue's article on coat-of-arms...
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3
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Conan
Next issue: The Gem in the Tower
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Conan the Conquistador

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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The knowledge that Marvel's Conan the Barbarian was technically not the first comicbook adaptation...
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Miscellaneous
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Article about Mexican comic series "La Reina de la Costa Negra" which was based on Robert E. Howard's Conan tales. Lots of art examples.
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typeset
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fantasy
The Bullpen's Barbarians
Conan
Conan, holding a club while standing astride a dead primitive man while five others attack his back.
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Miscellaneous
1
includes a brief introduction.
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
The Bullpen's Barbarians
Conan
Conan, standing over a dead winged humanoid, holding up an unconscious girl with his left hand, while swinging a sword over his head to score a bloody hit on another winged humanoid flying over his head.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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fantasy
The Bullpen's Barbarians
Red Sonja, in a jungle, sitting on the back of a dead reptile, with her sword pointing down between her legs and the point on the reptile's back leg, and a small baby reptile at the bottom, right corner.
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[untitled]

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fantasy
The Bullpen's Barbarians
Red Sonja
Red Sonja, standing with left hand on hip and right hand holding her sword point down while leaning on it, surrounded by various other depictions of her including three of only her head at the top, and four full figures: one pointing up with left hand while holding a sword in her right; one with sword in right hand while leaning on a spear, butt-down, in her left; one standing and starting to draw her sword; one kneeling with her back to the viewer and holding a dagger in her right hand.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
The Bullpen's Barbarians
Conan
Conan, with his back to the viewer, standing with one foot on the nose of a dead monster that has large tusks pointing up, holding a sword in his left hand while holding up a bloody object to the moon.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Conan; Chabela
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Miscellaneous
2
Letters from Jerry Edwards, Ed Baumgartner, Patrick Hamou, Dale Armelin, Jennie Lee, and Mike Bates.

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