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Issue: Savage Tales #12
Publication Date: January 1976
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Issues: #12 of 18 Issues
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Rating: M for the mature reader
Publisher: FlagK. G. Murray
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Indicia Publisher: The K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty Ltd
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Pages: 52
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Price: $0.40 AUD
Indicia Frequency: M for the mature reader
Content Items: 10 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Per the indicia, this issue was printed by Kenmure Press Pty Ltd, 50 Derby Street, North Lidcombe, 2141. It was distributed by Gordon & Gotch (A/SIA? Ltd, Melbourne. The publiser's address is given as 142 Clarence Street, Sydney, 2000.Conan
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover with black and white interior
Dimensions: Magazine size
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Ongoing series
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Conan the Barbarian starring in: Savage Tales

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Once Conan had loved. Tonight he would avenge!
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Pages: 1
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Savage Tales No. 12

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Conan
First Line: Contents
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustration of Conan with obligatory distressed damsel is signed "Vegan 74."
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
First Line: Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . .
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Pages: 1
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Night of the Dark God

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): 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)
First Line: The wind is out of the west, and it lashes unmercifully the night-dark waters of the vast lake.
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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Pages: 20.67
Disclose Notes: "Diverse Hands" and lettering credits per the GCD index of the original publication for this story.

Per the title page, "Freely adapted from th story, 'The Dark Man' by Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan.
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First Line: Trade Practices Act of 1974
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The Crimson Bell

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Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Arquel of Argos
Character(s): Arquel of Argos
First Line: Grey morning mists hung over the meadows of Asur, blurring outlines and clothing the forest to the south.
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Disclose Notes: This previously unpublished tale of Arquel of Argos, being the earliest adventure, chronologically, to date, is accompanied by nine illustrations and sketches by Williamson and Brunner.
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The Skull of Silence!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Ka-Nu; Kuthulos
First Line: In the time before the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . .
Synopsis: Kull's arrogance leads to the release of an ancient menace that he barely is able to defeat.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Per the credits, this tale is, "Adapted from Robert E. Howard's short story."
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Dark Tomorrow

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Karl Linders; Christine; Damian Linders; Prometheus
First Line: Time... All the time in the world.
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Pages: 11
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Genres: fantasy
First Line: Thrill to primitive tales of barbaric savagery as Conan battles against man and beast!!!
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Haunted Tales

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunted Tales
First Line: What fiendish phantoms, blood-thirsty vampires, ghoulish ghosts, and slithering shapes lurk in the deep abyss of the darkness?
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