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Issue: Conan the Barbarian #80
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Is Variant Variant: Whitman
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: A distribution variant, sold in Whitman branded plastic bags and distributed by Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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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 (squarebound #11, 100, 115)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan; Ptolemy
In hand-to-hand combat with the man-slayer!
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Trial by Combat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan; Ptolemy; Aristo (death)
Setting: city of Attalus. Conan defeats Ptolemy and Becomes King of Attalus. Stygians attack Attalus. Aristo dies.
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Miscellaneous
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Adapted from Robert E. Howard story "The Lost Valley of Iskander"

When this story, drawn by Chaykin as a 40-pager intended for Savage Sword of Conan, was instead used to fill three issues Conan the Barbarian, new pages (including splashes) were drawn by Ernie Chan ([Roy Thomas] 1977, 21; Thomas 2019, 199–200); this issue’s splash appears to be by Chan. The 51 story pages in the issues 79–81 of Conan the Barbarian suggest that Chan drew some pages not yet attributed to him.
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References:

Thomas, Roy. 2019. Barbarian Life: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian, Volume Two. N.p.: Pulp Hero Press.
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typeset
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Letters from Wilson Rivera, Jeff Blake, Susan Cacho, and Jeffrey A. Saltarela; includes a house ad for Daredevil series.
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Contains Stan Lee's Soapbox and Items.
Legal Eagle

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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superhero
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Legal Eagle [Ralph G. Fake]; Mary Jane Watson
Look, Spidey, it's Ralph G. Fake.
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