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Issue: The Savage Sword of Conan #56
Publication Date: September 1980
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Issues: #56 of 235 Issues (486 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860292909
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (1 story, 1 cover)
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Sword of Skelos

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Zafra
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagConan #3/1984 published December 1984
as Skelos svärd! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagConan #1/1985 published January 1985
as Skelos sverd! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #57 [Direct Edition] published December 1991
as The Scarlet Citadel! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Synopsis: Conan standing in front of a large rock, with a half-naked woman held on his left shoulder, cutting into the side of ax wielding savage, in front and below him, with his sword in his right hand, while two other savages, one holding a sword and the other a spear and shield, prepare to be next.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagConan #1/1985 published January 1985
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: frontispiece
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Table of Contents/Credits

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Conan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Reprise  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: After the episodes chronicled in the novel Conan and the Sorcerer, young Conan travels abroad once more...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes a map of The Hyborian Age of Conan.
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The Sword of Skelos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan; Isparana; Sarid (death); Arsil; Khassek (death); Derketari (death); Yavus; Chia (introduction); Hafar; Zafra (introduction); Akter Khan (introduction)
First Line: Somewhere southeast of Zamora...
Synopsis: In Shadizar, Conan is approached by Khassek of Iranistan, who is searching for the talisman known as the Eye of Erlik for his king. On their way to Iranistan to deliver the talisman, they encounter the beautiful but dangerous Isparana, who has Khassek killed and seduces Conan. Meanwhile, Zafra the sorcerer bestows a gift upon Akter Khan of Zamboula – an enchanted sword that the khan uses to kill one of his wives, a young woman from the Shanki people.
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In Content Item: FlagConan #1/1985 published January 1985
as Skelos-sverdet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagConan Saga #61 [Direct] published April 1992
as The Sword of Skelos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 43
Job Number: RT 355
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the novel The Sword of Skelos by Andrew J. Offutt. Continued next issue.
Joe Rosen credit from Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel 2019 series) #4.
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To Kush and Beyond: The Black Kingdoms of the Hyborian Age

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Although most of the action in the Conan Saga unfolded in the lands north of Stygia...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Seven illustrations by John Buscema / Gene Day and Gene Day by himself.
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The DeZuniga Conan

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
First Line: Five fabulous offerings by Tony DeZuniga...
Synopsis: Conan wearing a winged helmet, a fur cape and holding a mace in his left hand while standing on a small rock mound above a dead boy and skeleton with a skull-looking rocky outcropping behind and to his left of him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: RT 406
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The DeZuniga Conan

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Synopsis: Conan, wielding two short-swords, being blocked by a robed figure in the background while another figure in a hooded cloak is focused on a woman chained and bound to a wooden structure with a hot bar being lowered to torture her.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: RT 346
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The DeZuniga Conan

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Red Sonja
Synopsis: Sonja, with sword in right hand and a shield on her left arm, standing on a dais with her left leg slightly lifted looking down at a long dead corpse with a spear in its back.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: RT 303
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The DeZuniga Conan

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Synopsis: Conan standing, with his arms bound behind him with a wooden rod and a collar and chain on his neck, with the end being held by two guards beside him, facing a standing woman, with a scepter raised in her left hand, who has a black panther behind her.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: RT 405
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The DeZuniga Conan

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
Synopsis: Conan, standing with his sword held out and back in his right hand, facing a dinosaur type reptile coming over the top of a rocky mound, while behind him is a woman bound hand and foot to stakes in the ground.
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Reprint Notes:  
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Pages: 1
Job Number: RT 344
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Conan [photo of Damon Liebowitz]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from L. Sprague de Camp, John Ellis, Mark Ryan, and Bill Liebowitz.

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