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Issue: The Savage Sword of Conan #55
Publication Date: August 1980
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Issues: #55 of 235 Issues (486 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 06/03/1980
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860292908
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #180.
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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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When Dead Men Walk!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #74 [Direct Edition] published May 1993
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: Conan crouching with sword held in two hand, with a woman on her knees in front of him, being attacked from the side by a flying creature with long arms with clawed hands.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: frontispiece
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Table of Contents

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[untitled]

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First Line: Conan was born on a battlefield, during a fight between his tribe and a horde of raiding Vanir.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes a map of The Hyborian Age of Conan.
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Black Lotus and Yellow Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The sandstorm is a howling, blinding, fearsome horror...
Synopsis: Conan confronts Isparana in an oasis and switches the talisman known as the Eye of Erlik for a replica. Conan and Isparana are then captured by slavers, but soon freed by Arsil, the Turanian soldier. Conan returns to Arenjun and turns over the talisman to Hisarr Zul, who tries to kill him, but fails.
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In Content Item: FlagConan #2/1984 published January 1984
as Svart lotus og gul død [Story on Interior Page(s)]3 pages removed
In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #74 [Direct Edition] published May 1993
as Black Lotus and Yellow Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the novel Conan and the Sorcerer by Andrew J. Offutt. Continued from last issue.
Joe Rosen credit from Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel 2019 series) #4.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Stop dragon your feet about subscribing to Savage Sword!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes a subscription form for black and white Marvel magazines.
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Havoc in Hyboria

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First Line: We thought that, after a dozen or so articles, it was high time we introducted Jim Neal...
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: "A Study of Warfare in Conan's World". Two illustrations by Hoberg and two by Day.
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The New Kids in Town: A Portfolio

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Actually, the above is a mildly misleading name for the following five-page portolio.
Synopsis: Conan standing on a rocky edge holding a bloody ax in his right hand and a bloody sword in his left as he looks down at a dead warrior in armor, with a shield and broken sword on the ground below him.
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In Content Item: FlagConan #1/1985 published January 1985
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In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #29 [Newsstand] published September 1989
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Pages: 1
Job Number: RT 398
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The New Kids in Town: A Portfolio

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: In the middle of a bar fight, Conan is standing on a table, hitting one fighter with the flagon in his right hand while stabbing another fighter in the chest with the sword in his left hand while Sonja is swing her sword with her right hand while her left hand is at her breast hold on her chain-mail top.
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The New Kids in Town: A Portfolio

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: Conan standing, facing forward, with sword held in his left hand and his right foot on the head of a large serpent. Behind Conan, a large circle, showing the rest of the serpent's body and a stonehenge, with small drawings of four naked women in the corners, three of them with swords.
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In Content Item: FlagConan #1/1985 published January 1985
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Pages: 1
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The New Kids in Town: A Portfolio

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Synopsis: Conan, standing, facing forward, with a sword in his right hand while his left hand is pointing an ax straight at a figure with only its glowing hands being shown in the foreground. Behind Conan, one woman is strapped to an altar by her wrists, while another woman is standing to the left, right hand held to her mouth in fright and holding a dagger in her left. Behind the altar is a wizard and a winged demon.
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The New Kids in Town: A Portfolio

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: Conan, with a woman lying at his feet, fighting three men: one he has slashed in the chest with the sword in his right hand, another has been cut in the face with the dagger in his right hand, and the third is leaping in the air, sword held in both hands, preparing to strike. A small open chest is in the foreground.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: fantasy
First Line: King Kull, mighty man-legend of pre-cataclysmic times...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introduction to following story.
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Wizard and Warrior

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Brule's father (introduction; flashback)
First Line: In the royal Palace of Valusa, three men look down with grim seriousness at a gameboard...
Synopsis: Brule tells Kull the story of his first tribal war, where he killed Aa-Thak the wizard and won his scars.
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In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #28 [Newsstand] published August 1989
as Wizard and Warrior [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the short story "Wizard and Warrior" by Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from: John Schuch, John Robbins, Dennis Mallonee, and Shirley McClure.

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