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Issue: Conan the Barbarian #21
Publication Date: December 1972
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Issues: #21 of 275 Issues (640 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/12/1972
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #88 August 1972.
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Monster of the Monoliths!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagConan #6 (11697) published January 1979cover
In Issue: FlagConan le Barbare #6 published ?
In Content Item: FlagRobert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian #1 published January 1983
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #75 [unnamed variant] published June 1993
as A Gallery of Conan the Barbarian Cover Art [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Conan #1 published July 2000
as Conan the Barbarian #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives #2 published May 2010
as Conan the Barbarian #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005]
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The Monster of the Monoliths!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Melissandra; Kharam-Akkad; Yezdigerd; Balthaz; King Eannatum (introduction); Khurusan (introduction, death); Justin the Blind Hermit (introduction, death); Xuthltan
Synopsis: Setting: Makkalet. Conan is taken captive in Makkalet when he defects from the Turanian army. Conan joins and is betrayed by Makkalet forces. Conan fights giant toad-god.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #7 [Direct Edition] published November 1987
as The Monster of the Monoliths! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagEspada Selvagem de Conan em Cores #5 published December 1989
as O monstro dos monolitos [Story on Interior Page(s)]recolored
In Content Item: FlagConan #8/1991 published August 1991
as Monsteret på monolittene [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Conan #1 published July 2000
as The Monster of the Monoliths! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Chronicles of Conan #3 published January 2004
as The Monster of the Monoliths! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives #2 published May 2010
as The Monster of the Monolith! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Inspired by Robert E Howard story 'The Black Stone'. Smith credit changed from sketches to layout, based on splash page credits and info derived from letters pages.

According to an interview with Craig Russell in Conan: The Jewels of Gwahlur, only the first page and a couple of separate panels were fully drawn by Barry Smith, Val Mayerik completed figure work and Russell backgrounds. Inker Dan Adkins fell behind and called on them to do finished inks. In Back Issue #67 Russell stated he along with Val Mayerik did the finished pencil work, with Russell, Mayerik and Mark Kersey completing the inking.

Roussos coloring credit per Roy Thomas (2018, 116).
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Reference:

Thomas, Roy. 2018. Barbarian Life: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian, Volume One. N.p.: Pulp Hero Press.
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Dramatic Data, Dynamic Dispatches, and Death-Defying Declarations of Decidedly Dubious Distinction!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items, Mighty Marvel Checklist, house ad for Frankenstein series.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Dean Mullaney, James Edward Smith, Scott Olsen, Duffy Vohland, Gary Oppenhuis, David Randolph III, John Kozak, Gary L. Robinson, and Danny G. Daniels.

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