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Issue: The Savage Sword of Conan #15
Publication Date: January 1979
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Ltd.
On Sale Date: 12/1978
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.40 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dez Skinn
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Neal Adams
Neal Adams
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan The Barbarian
Conan
Reprinting
FlagSavage Tales #4 published May 1974
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Poster

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Craig Russell
Craig Russell
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan The Barbarian
Conan
Black & White double page illustration
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Miscellaneous
2
Night Of The Dark God

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert E. Howard (original story); Roy Thomas (adaptation)
Gil Kane; Neal Adams
Neal Adams [as Diverse Hands]; Pablo Marcos [as Diverse Hands]; Frank McLaughlin [as Diverse Hands]; Vince Colletta [as Diverse Hands]
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan The Barbarian
Conan; 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)
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. Bur 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.
Reprinting
FlagSavage Tales #4 published May 1974
was Night of the Dark God [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Adapted from Robert E. Howard's story "The Dark God" (a non-Conan story).

Diverse Hands identification by Roy Thomas in the letters page of the U.S. publication Savage Sword of Conan #2.
Conan The Movie

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tony Crawley
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan The Barbarian
Article about then upcoming Conan movie in pre-production. Photos of Roy Thomas, Ed Summer & Arnold Schwarzenegger along with illustrations by Frank Frazetta, John Buscema & Barry Windsor-Smith punctuate text.
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Miscellaneous
3
The Beast From The Abyss

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Steve Englehart
Howard Chaykin
Russ Heath [as The Crusty Bunkers]; Neal Adams [as The Crusty Bunkers]; Dick Giordano [as The Crusty Bunkers]; Alan Weiss [as The Crusty Bunkers]
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
King Kull
Kull; Brule; Baron Ergon; Zareta; Taligaro; Grogar; Monartho
Adapted from Robert E. Howard's story " Black Abyss " Kull is a guest at the decadent court of Baron Ergon, ruler of Kamula. After one of Brule's fellow guards vanishes and another is found murdered, Kull discovers the Kamulaans plan to sacrice them all to a gigantic, fleah-eating slug.
Reprinting
FlagThe Savage Sword of Conan #2 published October 1974
was The Beast from the Abyss [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Red Sonja: She-Devil With A Sword

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Roy Thomas
Howard Chaykin
Howard Chaykin
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Red Sonja
Red Sonja; Ghunthar
Sonja fights a werewolf in Darkwood Forest.
Reprinting
FlagKull and the Barbarians #2 published May 1975
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Kull & The Barbarians (Marvel, 1975 series) #2
Miscellaneous
10

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