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Issue: Marvel Treasury Edition #4
Publication Date: June 1975
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Issues: #4 of 28 Issues (49 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: British
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 03/1975
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.50 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 10 in. x 13.5 in.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: As noted in Roy Thomas' intro, the cover is taken from a Gorblimey Press portfolio and the artwork is copyrighted in the indicia to Gorblimey Press.
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An Informal History of the Thomas/Smith Conan

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
First Line: Comics is storytelling.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover and inside back cover includes caricatures of Roy Thomas and Barry Smith by Marie Severin and a Conan illo by Smith.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page includes a credit that reads: "With a special assist from Silvio Buscema."

Ken Ashworth provided correction to the original source of the illustration was from Savage Tales #3 and not #2. (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7307)
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Rogues in the House [Part One]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Jenna; Igon; Athicus; Murilo; Sivraj; Ch'Unda
First Line: That's enough entertainment for this night, barbarian.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Roy Thomas' editoral explains that this story was re-colored by Barry Windsor-Smith, with the assistance of Linda Lessmann. Thomas also notes that Smith re-inked a page "here and there" and Thomas re-wrote a line or two.
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[Rogues in the House] Part Two: The Talons of Thak

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Murilo; Nabonidus; Thak
First Line: Like a great brooding spider, the house of the Red Priest waits silently...
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of Rogues in the House. Roy Thomas' editoral explains that this story was re-colored by Barry Windsor-Smith, with the assistance of Linda Lessmann. Thomas also notes that Smith re-inked a page "here and there" and Thomas re-wrote a line or two.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Hyborian Age of Conan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Updated map of Conan's world.
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Red Nails

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Valeria (introduction); Conan; Chicmec; Techotl
First Line: At a small pool, the woman reins in her weary steed...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Disclose Notes: As per "Still Waiting For The Absolute BWS Conan Volumes" in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005], Smith reinked [including the 2 pages at the end of chapter one that Pablo Marcos originally inked for this story's previous B&W appearance in Savage Tales 2] the entire story, added additional details to splash page and elsewhere, and colored the story for its reprint here. Roy Thomas' editoral explains that he also re-wrote a line or two.
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The Lurker from the Catacombs

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Valeria; Conan; Techotl; Prince Olmec; Princess Tascela; Yasala; Yanath; Topal; Tolkemec (flashback); Tecuhltli (flashback); Xotalanc (flashback)
First Line: The upper chambers of the time-lost city are empty.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Roy Thomas' editoral explains that this story was re-colored by Barry Windsor-Smith, with the assistance of Linda Lessmann. Thomas also notes that Smith re-inked a page "here and there" and Thomas re-wrote a line or two.
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He Comes from the Dark

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Valeria; Conan; Techotl; Prince Olmec; Princess Tascela; Tolkemec
First Line: Conan needs no guide back thru the labyrinth that is the city of Xuchotl.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Roy Thomas' editoral explains that this story was re-colored by Barry Windsor-Smith, with the assistance of Linda Lessmann. Thomas also notes that Smith re-inked a page "here and there" and Thomas re-wrote a line or two.
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To the Memory of Robert E Howard

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Conan Unconquered

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Cover shows lower half of this illustration. Image copyright Gorblimey Press.

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