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Issue: The Savage Sword of Conan #40

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Publication Date: May 1979

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Issues: #40 of 235 Issues (319 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860292905

Price: $1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (1 story, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: magazine

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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1 Content Item
- A Dream of Blood [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Content Items (10 total)

A Dream of Blood

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Conan; Chabela

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Pages: 1

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Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Conan

Synopsis: Conan with sword in had facing a lizard creature coming from a woman's body.

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Pages: 1

Table of Contents

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Conan

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Pages: 1

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First Line: At about the age of 37, Conan--who for a time has been one of the fierce Barachan pirates...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Includes a map of The Hyborian Age of Conan.

A Dream of Blood

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Conan; Chabela (introduction); Gomani; Zeltran; Riego; Captain Kapellez; Sabral; Ninus; Cratos; Sigurd (introduction); Zarono (villain, introduction); Villagro (villain, introduction); Menkara (villain, introduction)

First Line: It is two hours before midnight when Princess Chabela awakes.

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In Content Item: Flag

Conan Saga #42 [Newsstand] published September 1990
as A Dream of Blood [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 46

Notes: Adapted from the novel Conan the Buccaneer by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.
Continued in next issue.

Joe Rosen lettering credit from "Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus" (Marvel, 2019 series) #3).

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Conan

First Line: Next issue: In his search for the Cobra Crown, Conan becomes a--Slave of the Amazon Queen.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Includes a subscription form for black and white Marvel magazines.

A Gazetteer of the Hyborian World of Conan, Part 7

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Character(s): Conan; Red Sonja

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Pages: 5

Notes: Information from Talakma Mountains to Vilayet Sea.

Don't Miss "The People of the Cataclysm"

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Character(s): Conan

Synopsis: Conan, girl and monster fish.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Announcing a tale based on Robert E. Howard's short story "The Voice of El-Lil" coming to the Conan the Barbarian newspaper comic-strip beginning March 26, 1979.

The (Almost) Forgotten Tales of Conan

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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First Line: The voice is just as you always imagined it would be.

Synopsis: About the "Conan the Barbarian" record album released in 1976 + a 45 r.p.m. version packaged with a 20-page comics version of "The Crawler in the Mists".

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Pages: 5

Notes: Pages 58-61, 66.

Includes a comparison between a couple of pages of the 20-page comic and the version in the newspaper strip.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Letters from Craig Livingston, Patrick Pirone, Bob Snow, and Eric Kelly.