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Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK 1975 1st Series)
Magazine-Sized Comics Lot (11.15″ x 8.25″)
Marvel Comics UK 1975 Complete 1^st Series

Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US-produced stories for the British weekly comic market. In 1972, seeing a gap in the popular weekly comics market of the UK, Marvel Comics formed their own British publishing arm, Marvel UK (under the corporate name of Magazine Management London Ltd.). Marvel UK featured mainly black-and-white art with spot coloring (except for the front and back pages which were in full color) in a magazine-sized format. Originally the weekly comic was created by slicing up storylines from the monthly American versions. In early 1975, Savage Sword of Conan was added as a weekly title to the Marvel UK line-up. The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK 1975 1st Series) features reprints in Black & White of Conan the Barbarian (1970), Kull, the Conqueror (1971), Creatures on the Loose (1971), Black Knight (1955), Astonishing Tales (1970), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), & Monsters Unleashed (1973). Marvel UK also had a Savage Sword of Conan (2^nd Series) which ran for 92 issues from 1976 to 1985.

Savage Sword of Conan (1975 1^st Series) Marvel Comics UK Complete Series includes:

Savage Sword of Conan #1  (March 8, 1975) ***Does NOT Include POSTER***
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Coming of Conan!   19 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Dan Adkins. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
First comic book appearance and origin of Conan. Conan battles at Vanaheim and sees his future; Tara returns to her dimension 1st comic book appearance of Kull (cameo).

A King Comes Riding!   9 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Ross Andru. Inker: Wally Wood. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
A Kull comic story with Brule the Spear Slayer.

Savage Sword of Conan #2  (March 15, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

Lair of the Beast-Men!   19 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan leads humans in a revolution against their ape-masters; Conan kills a snow-lion; Conan’s 1st time in chains.

To Kill A King   11 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Ross Andru. Inker: Wally Wood. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
The Valusian crown is passed to another in an exceptional tale of sword and sorcery… Adapted in part from “The Shadow Kingdom,” “By This Axe I Rule,” and “Exile of Atlantis” (Kull stories by creator Robert E. Howard).

Savage Sword of Conan #3  (March 22, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Twilight of the Grim Grey God!   19 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan meets and converses with the Grey God Borri. He then joins the Brythunian army and participates in a great and bloody battle. Conan kills Malachi, a traitor and then watches the winged Choosers of the Slain carry off the souls of the fallen to their just reward. Based on “The Grey God Passses” by Robert E. Howard.

The Shadow Kingdom   10 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Brule the Spear-Slayer fights alongside the newly-throned King Kull against Serpent-Men living in the City of Wonders. First 11 pages of the story.

Savage Sword of Conan #4  (March 29, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Tower of the Elephant   20 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan scales Elephant tower, kills a lion and a giant spider, and saves Yag-Kosha by killing him at his request. Adapted from REH’s “The Tower of the Elephant”.

Wisdom from the Grave   10 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
The Shadow Kingdom story continued… Serpent-Men (first appearance)

Savage Sword of Conan #5  (April 5, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

Zukala’s Daughter   19 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Frank Giacoia. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan frees villages of Zukala’s control, saves Zephra from demon, and defeats Zukala, who disappears with his daughter Zephra. Inspired by REH poem “Zukala’s Hour”.

The Skull of Silence!   7 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Bernie Wrightson. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Kull’s arrogance leads to the release of an ancient menace that he barely is able to defeat.

The Crusader   5 pages
Writer: ???. Artist: Joe Maneely. Letterer: Ray Holloway.
Upon learning that he is actually Frankish nobility, the Saracen warrior known as El Alemein joins the Crusaders. Saladin appears and challenges King Richard the Lion-Hearted to a duel, but El Alemein offers to fight in the king’s place and defeats Saladin. King Richard knights El Alemein and names him Lord O’Dare.

Savage Sword of Conan #6  (April 12, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

Devil-Wings over Shadizar   20 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Mike Stevens.
In Shadizar, Conan meets the beautiful waitress Jenna. She is however kidnapped by religious fanatics and taken to be sacrificed to the mysterious night god. The god no-one has ever seen is revealed to be a gigantic bat-like creature. Conan saves Jenna from the bat creature, while Jenna in her turn saves Conan from the priestess Hajii. Jenna then steals all his gold and leaves.

A Day of Tigers!   12 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Gil Kane. Inker: Frank Giacoia. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
The origin of Ka-Zar and Zabu, including the tale of Lord Plunder’s first visit to the Savage Land.

Savage Sword of Conan #7  (April 19, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Lurker Within   19 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inkers: Sal Buscema & Dan Adkins. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan saves Lady Aztrias of Numalia from a pack of wolves. She hires Conan to steal from the wealthy merchant Kallian, who temporarily houses a mysterious bowl from Stygia, said to contain a great treasure. Conan burgles the merchant’s house, finds the bowl empty and Kallian dead. The city guard appears and Lady Aztrias accuses him of killing Kallian. The real killer was in the bowl, however: a serpent-man, a big snake with a human head. Conan kills the sepent-man and saves Demetrio. In a vision, Conan sees the Stygian sorcerer Thoth-Amon. Adapted from REH story “The God in the Bowl”.

Maa-Gor the Man-Ape   10 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Gil Kane. Inker: Frank Giacoia. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
A Day of Tigers! Story continued.

Savage Sword of Conan #8  (April 26, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Keepers of the Crypt   19 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inkers: Tom Sutton & Tom Palmer. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan comes across the ruins of the ancient city of Lanjau, where he battles a giant lizard. He meets a nameless mercenary and they both decide to work together in order to retrieve the lost treasure of Lanjau. Undead creatures, keepers of the crypt, try to stop them but are defeated by sunlight. An earthquake buries the mercenary, Lanjau and the treasure. Conan comes to a nearby village, where he once again meets Jenna. When soldiers come to arrest him, Conan and Jenna flee the village on a horse.
Based on the unfinished story fragment Hall of the Dead by Robert E. Howard.

The Thurian Continent in the time of King Kull circo 18,000 B.C.   1 page
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Marie Severin.
A map of the Thurian Continent.

The Forbidden Swamp   10 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: John Severin. Inker: Marie Severin. Letterer: Artie Simek.
Kull and Brule enter a temple to the Valusian snake-god which is guarded by a giant undersea beast. There he meets Thulsa Doom for the first time, who pretends to be an ally and asks to return with them to the City of Wonders.

Savage Sword of Conan #9  (May 3, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Garden of Fear   19 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
While Conan and Jenna are the guests of a primitive mountain tribe, Jenna is kidnapped by a mysterious winged creature. This creature is the last survivor of his race and takes Jenna to a tower surrounded by flesh-eating flowers. Conan uses a herd of woolly mammoths to scale the tower, kill the creature and save Jenna. Comics adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s short story “The Garden of Fear”.

The Death-Dance of Thulsa Doom!   12 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: John Costanza.
Thulsa Doom unleashes a pack of wild demons against sworn life nemesis King Kull!

Savage Sword of Conan #10  (May 10, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

Beware the Wrath of Anu!   23 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan teams with Burgun in thievery. Burgun is betrayed and hung. Conan avenges his death by killing Aron and a priest. Jenna leaves Conan for Igon. Red Bull is freed and becomes the stars.

The Demon-Hordes of Thulsa Doom!   9 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: John Costanza.
The Death-Dance of Thulsa Doom! Story continued.

Savage Sword of Conan #11  (May 11, 1975)
Cover by: Frank Giacoia

Rogues in the House   15 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
The Cimmerian finds himself ensnared in the dark intrigues of a city-state where the powerful will stoop to any depths to keep what they have stolen. When a young, idealistic noble offers Conan a ticket to freedom in exchange for a favor, Conan leaps at the opportunity–and into a labyrinth where he must fight to keep not only his word, but his very life. Adapted from REH story “Rogues in the House”.

Night of the Red Slayers   10 pages
Writers: John Jakes & Gerry Conway. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Artie Simek.
The Red Slayers attempt to conquer the City of Wonders!

The Blood of the Dragon   7 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Gil Kane. Inker: Diverse Hands. Letterer: Artie Simek.
Tales of the Hyborian Age!

Savage Sword of Conan #12  (May 24, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Talons of Thak Part Two: Rogues in the House   20 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Continuing the Adaptation of the REH story “Rogues in the House”.

Night of the Red Slayers!   11 pages
Writers: John Jakes & Gerry Conway. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Artie Simek.
The cataclysmic conclusion of Night of the Red Slayers!

Savage Sword of Conan #13  (May 31, 1975)
Cover by: Gil Kane

The Dweller in the Dark   16 pages
Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan becomes Captain of the royal guard in the small city-state of Zahmahn as well as the lover of Queen Fatima. When the Queen catches Conan with the servant girl Yaila in a delicate situation, she leaves them in the dungeon to be devoured by the Dweller in the Dark. They manage to escape, however, and Conan throws the Queen to the monster. According to tradition, Zahmahn can only be ruled by a female sovereign, so Conan nominates Yaila as the new queen.

The King and the Oak   5 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Illustrated poem. Adapted from a poem by Robert E. Howard.

Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria!   11 pages
Writer: George Alec Effinger. Artist: Val Mayerik. Inker: Vince Colletta. Letterer: Artie Simek.
What mad sorceror can foretell the fate of that savage youth? First comic book appearance of Thongor. Based on “Thieves of Zangabal” by Lin Carter, creator of Thongor.

Savage Sword of Conan #14  (June 7, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

Web of the Spider God   22 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & John Jakes. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Conan is delirious in desert, Thanix saves his life. Conan fights Omm (giant spider), Tork destroys Yezud and leaves for Shadizar with Lea.

The Demon of Zangabal!   4.5 pages
Writer: George Alec Effinger. Artist: Val Mayerik. Inker: Vince Colletta. Letterer: Artie Simek.
Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria! story continued.

Where Broods the Demon!   5 pages
Writer: George Alec Effinger. Artist: Val Mayerik. Inker: Vince Colletta. Letterer: Artie Simek.
Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria! story continued.

Savage Sword of Conan #15  (June 14, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

A Sword Called Stormbringer!   21 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas, Michael Moorcock, & James Cawthorn. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: John Costanza.
First comic book appearance of Elric of Melnibone. Conan saves Zephra’s life, fights against and later with Elric; Conan fights to save Hyborea and Melnibone from Queen Xiombarg.

The Man-Monster Strikes!   9 pages
Writer: George Alec Effinger. Artist: Val Mayerik. Inker: Vince Colletta. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria! story continued.

Savage Sword of Conan #16  (June 21, 1975)
Cover by: Barry Windsor-Smith

The Green Empress of Melnibone   21 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas, Michael Moorcock, & James Cawthorn. Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: John Costanza.
Conan and Elric have an un-easy truce while they ride to the sunken city known as Yagala. Once there they have to face Xiombarg, Prince Gaynor the Damned, Kulan-Gath and Terhali. When their combined power is not enough to defeat them Arkyn must join the fight to help them.

Skulls in the Stars   10 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Ralph Reese. Inker: Sal Buscema. Letterer: ???.
In England, Kane is on his way towards the hamlet of Torkertown and must choose one of two paths. One route leads through a moor, while the other leads through a swamp. He’s warned that the moor route is haunted and all travelers who take this road die, so Kane decides to investigate. Adapted from REH story “Skulls in the Stars”.

Savage Sword of Conan #17  (June 28, 1975)
Cover by: Gil Kane

The Gods of Bal-Sagoth   20 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Gil Kane. Inker: Ralph Reese. Letterer: John Costanza.
Conan and Fafnir the Vanir are stranded on the ancient island of Bal-Sagoth in the Vilayet Sea. At first they are enemies, but they quickly decide to co-operate in order to survive. They rescue a girl, Kyrie, and fight the high priest Gothan in order to restore her as goddess and queen Aala of Bal-Sagoth.

A Kingdom by the Sea!   12 pages
Writer: Gerry Conway. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
King Kull of Valusia takes to the high seas in a piratical adventure of blood and battle.

Savage Sword of Conan #18  (July 5, 1975)
Cover by: Gil Kane

The Thing in the Temple!: The Gods of Bal-Sagoth – part 2   20 pages
Writers: Roy Thomas & Robert E. Howard. Artist: Gil Kane. Inker: Dan Adkins. Letterer: Artie Simek.
Setting: Island city of Bal-Sagoth in Vilayet Sea. Conan and Fafnir slay demons and flee from Bal-Sagoth as a volcano destroys the island. They are picked up in the Sea by Yezdigerd.

The Blade, the Blood, the Battle!   9 pages
Writer: Gerry Conway. Artist: Marie Severin. Inker: John Severin. Letterer: Sam Rosen.
A Kingdom by the Sea! story continued.

Magazine-Sized Comics lot contains: Savage Sword of Conan (1975) Issues #1-18.  Marvel Comics UK Series

Magazine-Sized Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Marvel Comics UK
Publication Date: 1975
Format per magazine-sized UK comic: B&W, 36 pages, Magazine-Sized Comic, 11.15″ x 8.25″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Magazine-Sized UK Comics #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 are in Very Good condition. (general reading wear)  Very Nice Reading Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Conan collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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