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Savage Tales #4 – Featuring Conan The Barbarian         Magazine
Front Cover by: Neal Adams

Table of Contents:

Night of the Dark God (adapted from R.E.H. story “The Dark Man”)                          Page 5
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artists: Gil Kane, Neal Adams, & Diverse Hands
Inker: Pablo Marcos

Story (Spoilers!)
Conan, feeling a longing for home has ridden straight through to Cimmeria and his home village, which he discovers has recently been raided by Vanir and a childhood friend taken. He tracks the Vanir and borrows a boat from a fisherman to finish the journey to the Isle of Swords. He finds an boatload of dead Picts floating on the sea and takes a surprisingly lightweight statue he finds on board with him on his journey. Finally, he reaches the Isle of Swords and begins to spy on the Vanir encampment. The Vanir find his boat and take the statute to their camp, but for them, the statue is impossibly heavy. Conan makes his way into the camp, killing witnesses, until he finds the drinking-hall, where Mara is about to be an unwilling bride to the brigands’ leader, Thorfel. Before anyone can act, though, Mara steals Thorfel’s dagger and plunges it into her chest. Enraged, Conan bursts from hiding and begins to slaughter the brigands. The odds begin to turn against the barbarian, until the doors burst open, and the hall is full of the dead Pict sailors, resurrected by the Dark God statue that sits in the hall. Conan is free to find and kill Thorfel, then he sails quietly away.

Star-Crossed Swords                                                                                                  Page 26
A Very Personal Word from Roy Thomas.

Jason and his Electric Argonauts by Erwin Stevenson                                             Page 28
Ray Harryhausen, Hydras, Harpies – and Heroes.
Includes movie photos of the Jason and the Argonauts motion-picture.

The Crusader                                                                                                               Page 35
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Joe Maneely
Inker: Joe Maneely

Story (Spoilers!)
Like sand drifting over the desert, the savage hordes slipped unseen around King Richard’s camp! Then came one who had been searching for the English monarch, A man who had but shortly before thought himself a Saracen but knew himself now to be an English man! …And the Mongols leaped upon him!

The Hour of the Gnome by Roy Thomas                                                                    Page 42
Conan in hardback! The Books that Time Forgot!

The Dweller in the Dark                                                                                              Page 49
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Barry Smith

Story (Spoilers!)
Conan is surprised by a pack of soldiers from the city Zahmahn as he attempts to drink from a protected spring. The Cimmerian kills the captain of the guards and gets knocked out by another soldier. In fear that the queen may, question them, as who killed her favorite. The soldiers manage to get the best of the weary barbarian and drag him before their queen, the power-mad Fatima. Impressed by the barbarian, she takes him as her consort for several weeks until Conan makes the mistake of being nice to the slave girl Yaila. The insanely jealous, or maybe just insane, Fatima sentences the two to death in the sewers at the pleasure of the Dweller in the Darkness. Conan is chained next to Yaila, upon an ancient wall, as both hear something coming, from down inside the darkened caverns. Conan manages to break free of the chains that hold him as a huge, pink tentacle reaches around a corner. The Cimmerian and the girl travel down the sewer tunnel just as the Dweller, a giant octopus slithers into view, in a vast chamber beyond. The wretched creature, once human, but now transformed into the thing, it is now lashes out at Conan and female companion. Conan attempts to rescue the girl, Yaila, who snatched up one of the vile creature’s tentacles. Even the monster is spongy and hard to cut, Conan manages to slice one of the creature’s eyes, blinding it. The monster, now in pain, begins lash out, as the Cimmerian and the girl attempt to find an excite to the problem. Conan carrying Yaila scramble up a tunnel in the ceiling. Breaking through a manhole, they find themselves in the middle of Fatima and a group of guards. Fed up with the situation, Conan grabs the queen and threatens to throw her down the hole to the monster. Fatima promises Conan anything he wants if he lets her go. Not believing her for a second, Conan tosses her to the Dweller and listens, satisfied, to the screams. Conan turns to face the guards but is surprised when they cheer; they were fed up with Fatima themselves. Conan takes the opportunity to attempt to make himself king, but when he discovers that Zahmahn only allows queens, names Yaila as the next ruler and, having enough of queens, leaves town.

Collectible Entertainment comment: There is no finer entertainment than the vintage black and white graphic magazines of the 70’s with their epic storylines and their incredible art and inks. Most especially, Savage Tales, Savage Sword of Conan. Conan the Savage, Conan Saga, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Rampaging Hulk, Dracula Lives, The Haunt of Horror, The Planet of the Apes, Monsters Unleashed, Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu, Doc Savage, Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction, The Legion of Monsters, and Tales of the Zombie… among a few others. Very, very highly recommended. Search them out and enjoy!!

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Publisher: Marvel Comics-Magazine Group / Curtis
Publication Date: May 1974
Format: B&W, 68 pages, Magazine, 10.75″ x 8.15″
UPC: None Stated

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

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