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Conan the Barbarian: Mask of Acheron                One-Shot Comic
Featuring Dark Horse Comics Official Comic Adaptation to the 2011 Conan the Barbarian Movie.  Awesome!!
Writer: Stuart Moore
Artist: Gabriel Guzman
Inkers: Jason Gorder, Mark McKenna & Andy Owens
Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Editors: Dave Land & Patrick Thorpe
Cover by: Gabriel Guzman, Mariano Taibo & Michelle Madsen

Based on Conan the Barbarian, the 2011 major motion picture from Millennium Films, Furla Productions and Conan Properties International. Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 American sword and sorcery film based on the character Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. The film is a new interpretation of the Conan mythology, and is not related to the films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It stars Jason Momoa in the title role, alongside Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman, and Bob Sapp with Marcus Nispel directing.

“Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars … Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.” – The Nemedian Chronicles

Conan… a vengeful barbarian warrior, trained in the arts of war, sets off to find revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a young boy. After witnessing his wife burned at the stake, warlord Khalar Zym sets out on a quest to find the mythical Mask of Acheron, an ancient artifact that will bring his beloved back to life. In his search across the lands, Zym destroys a village in northern Cimmeria, where a boy born of battle survives and is cast out into the world, alone. Years later, Zym crosses paths again with the boy who survived–Conan. Zym must now contend with this barbarian nuisance who is now set on vengeance for the slaughter of his village. Zym and his seductive witch daughter, Marique, eventually clash with Conan in an epic final battle, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the world.

This one-shot also features a 6 page text article w/ 6 pictures entitled, “Acheron: The Nightmare inside the Age Undreamed Of. written by Dale E. Rippke and a beautiful full color map of Hyboria – The Thurian Continent.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Conan The Barbarian 2011 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)

Conan is the son of Corin, barbarian chieftain. Conan passes the trials to become a warrior whilst also slaying attackers during an ambush. He returns with their heads, proving that he is a skilled but violent warrior, whom his father believes is not ready to wield his own sword. Their village is attacked by Khalar Zym, a warlord who wishes to reunite the pieces of the Mask of Acheron to revive his dead wife and conquer Hyboria. The mask, crafted by a group of sorcerers and used to subjugate the world, was broken into many pieces, scattered among the barbarian tribes. After locating Corin’s piece of the mask and murdering the entire village, Zym leaves. Conan is the only survivor. He swears revenge.

Years later, Conan is a pirate. He encounters a slave colony and frees it by killing the slave handlers. In the city of Messantia, he encounters Ela-Shan, a thief being chased by Lucius, one of Zym’s soldiers from years before. Conan allows himself to be captured alongside Ela-Shan. Conan escapes imprisonment, kills several of the guards, and confronts Lucius, forcing him to reveal that Zym seeks a girl, the pure-blood descendant of the sorcerers of Acheron; sacrificing the descendant and using blood from the girl will unleash the mask’s power. Conan helps the prisoners escape, and Ela-Shan tells Conan he will find him at the City of Thieves, Argalon. The prisoners kill Lucius.

Zym and his daughter, the sorceress Marique, attack a monastery to find the pure-blood descendant. Sensing something is wrong, Fassir, an elderly monk, tells one of his students, Tamara, to quickly leave and return to her birthplace. When Fassir refuses to reveal his knowledge of the descendant, Zym kills him. Marique slays several priestesses. Tamara’s carriage is chased by Zym’s men, but Conan rescues her, kills three of her pursuers, and captures Remo. After forcing him to reveal Tamara’s importance as the pure-blood, Conan catapults Remo into Zym’s nearby camp, killing him.

Zym and Marique confront Conan, who pretends to be interested in exchanging Tamara for gold. Conan attacks Zym, but Marique invokes soldiers made of sand and poisons Conan with a boomerang sword. Tamara rescues him. They return to Conan’s ship, where his friend Artus helps him recover. The boat is attacked by Zym’s men, who kill several of Conan’s men, but they are defeated. Conan orders Artus to return to Messantia with Tamara and departs to confront Zym in his kingdom. Artus tells Tamara that Conan left a map behind. She follows him, meeting with him in a cave, where they have sex. The next day, as she is returning to the boat, Zym’s men and daughter capture her.

Conan learns of Tamara’s capture and departs to Argalon, where he asks Ela-Shan to help him break into Zym’s castle. Zym prepares to drain Tamara’s blood, mending the mask. He plans to use the girl’s body as a vessel for his wife’s soul. After confronting an octopus-like monster that guards the dungeons and killing its handlers, Conan infiltrates Zym’s followers, kills a guard, steals his robe, and watches as Zym puts on the empowered mask. Conan releases Tamara, and she escapes as he battles Zym, reclaiming the sword Marique had stolen from his father. Marique attacks Tamara, but Conan hears Tamara’s scream and cuts off Marique’s hand. Tamara kicks her into a pit, where she is impaled.

Zym swears revenge upon Conan. Conan and Tamara are trapped on a bridge as Zym attacks. He uses the mask’s power to call forth the spirit of his deceased wife, Maliva, a powerful sorceress, and her spirit begins to possess Tamara’s body. She begs Conan to let her fall, but he instead destroys the bridge before jumping to safety with Tamara. Zym cries out to his wife as he falls into the lava.

Conan and Tamara escape, and he returns her to her birthplace, telling her that they will meet again. He returns to Corin’s village and tells the memory of his father that he has avenged his death and recovered the sword Marique stole from him, restoring his honor.

Comic is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: July 2011
Format: FC, 64 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.65″
ISBN-10: 1595828281
ISBN-13: 9781595828286

Collectible Entertainment note: One-Shot Comic is in Fine condition.  Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Conan collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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