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Issue: Conan the Barbarian #48
Publication Date: March 1975
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Issues: #48 of 275 Issues (640 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel All-Colour ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.08 GBP
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
21 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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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Rampage at Ravengard!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
First Line: Extra! The Return of Red Sonja!
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Don't Be Half a Man!

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First Line: Let me show you how I can make you a real He-Man from head to toe...
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The Rats Dance at Ravengard!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Torkal Moh
First Line: The way is long to Phalkar, westernmost province of the Border Kingdom...
Synopsis: Setting: Western border wastelands. Flashback story of 15 year old Conan achieving manhood. Conan is captured by Torkal Moh.
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Disclose Notes: Freely adapted from the Belmont novel "Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse" by Gardner F. Fox. Part 3 of 6.

Dan Adkins inks the flashback sequence.

INDEXER NOTE: Terry Austin is not credited as inker for backgrounds, pages 1, 7-16 in this issue. This sequence is marked "uncertain" for Terry Austin. (July 10, 2024)
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Put Yourself in the Center of the Action

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First Line: Sell GRIT in a few hours of your spare time each week
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These 3 Big Drafting Kits Given To You!

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First Line: When you train at home with us for a high pay job in drafting
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Free 1975 Catalog - 1600 Novelties

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Indian and Lincoln Cents by the Pound!

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Feature(s): Mrs. Penny Fisher
First Line: Dated from the 1880's up to WWII
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Now You Can Use Isokinetics

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First Line: New breakthru [sic] in muscle building!!!
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Formula I

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First Line: Sleek and shapely. Gorgeous monsters of power.
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Shop by Mail

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I'm Sick and Tired of My Job!

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First Line: Don't forget dear, we've got a date for the movies with Jim and Helen tonight
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Fast Track to a Cool Job!

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First Line: Train at home to be a motorcycle mechanic
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Be a Mighty Marvel Salesperson!

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First Line: ...or maybe just a thrifty true believer!
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Episode!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Red Sonja; Vincentius (death); Hunwolf (death)
First Line: They call it Darkwood, for its spear-like pines form an eerie canopy which often hides the bright-eyed sun, and turns the filtered light to tiger stripes.
Synopsis: Setting: Darkwood. Red Sonja is captured by Vincentius, frees herself and Hunwolf and also kills Vincentius and Hunwolf.
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Marvel Poster Masterpieces and Mighty Marvel Belt Buckles

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First Line: The Mighty Marvel mail order store is now open for business and full wing, tigers.
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Impossible?

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First Line: Not for the super bodybuilding system!
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Memos and Meanderings From Your Mighty Muddled Merry-Makers!

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The Mighty Marvel Comicon!

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First Line: Four words that spell a world of excitement!
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Kung-Fu & Karate

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First Line: You'll be a master of self defense once you've completed our revolutionary new audiovisual home study course...
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Have You Seen This Coupon Before?

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First Line: It has helped to start many men and women on the road to great accomplishment.
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Never Finished High School?

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First Line: Now you can get a diploma without going back
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