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Conan The Barbarian: Volume 3                                                       Paperback
Featuring Robert E. Howard Comic Adaptations.  Awesome!!
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

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 – Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. 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 sandalled feet.

Conan The Barbarian – Volume 3 Paperback contains:

Introduction by Roy Thomas

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The Hyborian Age of Conan Map

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“The Lurker Within”
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith
Inkers: Dan Adkins & Sal Buscema
Letterer: Sam Rosen

Conan comes across a spoiled woman, Lady Aztrian, under attack by wolves. He chases the animals off and, in order to safely pass through Numalia’s city gates, accompanies the woman as her chariot driver. After a brief run-in with the owner of the Hall of Relics, Kallian, and the guardsman Dionus, Aztrian reveals she has heavy gambling debts, and asks Conan to break into the Hall of Relics and steal a treasure recently brought to the city by Stygians for Karanthes, priest of Ibis. Conan is intrigued and that night sneaks into the museum only to find Kallian dead and the golden bowl, which contained the treasure, empty. Conan is discovered and held by Arus, a watchman at the House of Relics, who quickly summons the guard. Demetrio and Dionus of the guard arrive, and soon Aztrian as well, and she wastes no time in blaming Conan for the mess. A scream interrupts everything as a broken, maddened, and dying Arus stumbles out of an adjoining room. The others rush into the locked room, and find it in shambles. A golden mask on the wall with snakes for hair entices Aztrias to approach it, and the mask, in reality the face of a gruesome serpent, bursts from the wall. Demetrio and Aztrias are killed, and as Conan fights the beast, he realizes the Stygians had discovered this “god in the bowl” and sent it to destroy the priest of Ibis, a plan ruined when Kallian peeked inside the bowl and released the creature early. Conan finally bludgeons the monster to death and steals a look inside the bowl himself. He sees the frightening visage of Thoth-Amon staring back at him. Unnerved, Conan flees Numalia.

Reprints/collects: Conan The Barbarian (1970) Issue #7.  Marvel Comics
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“The Keepers of the Crypt”
Based on an original synopsis by: Robert E. Howard
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith
Inkers: Tom Palmer & Tom Sutton
Letterer: Sam Rosen
Editor: Stan Lee

While Conan is being tracked by Corinthian soldiers at the request of Nemedia (because of events in CB-7). All but one of the soldiers is killed by an avalanche, but the remaining soldier, Captain Burgun, a survivor of the Battle of Venarium, is quickly knocked out by Conan, who heads deeper into Corinthia. He finds an abandoned city guarded by a giant gila monster. Conan scrambles up a ruined building and pitches rocks down on the creature until he weakened it enough to plunge his sword into its back. He begins to poke around the city but is surprised by the reappearance of Burgun. The two decide the treasure of the city, and the possibility of more monsters, is more important than any feud they might have so they explore the city together. They find a vast reassure room stocked high with gold and jewels. As they start to divide the horde, six mummified guardians step from their resting places and attack. The two men flee, and the midday sun destroys the undead guardians when they leave the room. But this starts a chain reaction that crumbles the entire city. Conan makes it out, but Burgun seems to be trapped inside the city as it falls. Conan makes his way to a village tavern and encounters Jenna, who he is still mad at regarding her stealing his loot in Shadizar, which she spent to buy the tavern. Conan is less angry with her than he normally would be, since he has a whole new bag of gold to spend but is chagrined when he finds it has turned to dust. A jade serpent crown he also took has turned into a true serpent, which is actually to Conan’s advantage as it distracts the Corinthian soldiers who have finally caught up with him. Conan and Jenna flee the village on horseback.

Reprints/collects: Conan The Barbarian (1970) Issue #8.  Marvel Comics
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“The Garden of Fear”
Story by: Robert E. Howard
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Barry Smith
Inker: Sal Buscema
Letterer: Sam Rosen
Editor: Stan Lee

Conan and Jenna, while riding through a mountain range, are attacked by savages. They manage to grab Jenna and Conan violently responds. The battle is halted by the appearance of the savages’ chief, who Conan decides to trust to the point of even joining the savages in their frenzied dances. The next morning Conan and Jenna prepare to leave, but the girl is snatched by a winged creature and taken beyond the cliffs; Conan gives chase. The valleys Conan enters contains all number of exotic animals and greenery, finally reaching a lighthouse-like tower in the second valley. An ebony, winged man steps out and tosses man into the odd-looking flowers below. The flowers promptly kill and suck the blood out of the man, much to Conan’s horror. The creature, noting Conan, goes inside but returns a moment later and dangles Jenna above the man-eating plants. With no way to reach the tower, Conan returns to the animals in the first valley, and lights a fire to herd a group of elephants towards the tower. The beasts trample the field of flowers and Conan climbs the tower walls. He fights the creature to the death, and, uninterested in the mysteries of the tower and its owner, Conan leads Jenna out of the Valley.

Reprints/collects: Conan The Barbarian (1970) Issue #9.  Marvel Comics
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Paperback reprints/collects: Conan The Barbarian (1970) Issues #7,8,9.  Marvel Comics

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

First Edition
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 1978
Format: FC, 160 pages, Paperback, 7″ x 4.5″
ISBN-10: 0441116949
ISBN-13: 9780441116942

Collectible Entertainment note: Paperback is in Very Good condition. (wear) Otherwise… Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Conan, Barry Windsor-Smith, and/or Robert E. Howard collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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