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Savage Tales #5 – Featuring Conan The Barbarian               Magazine
Front Cover by: Neal Adams

Table of Contents:

The Secret of Skull River                                                                                     Page 5
Writers: John Jakes & Roy Thomas
Artist: Jim Starlin
Inker: Al Milgrom

Story (Spoilers!)
Conan, on the way to Shadizar, comes across a blind seer prophesying danger at the river called Skull. Conan ignores him, but soon encounters a deformed giant of a man, named Hanuman, and only succeeds in the battle by toppling the wretched creature off a cliff. Conan stumbles to a nearby stream, badly injured, and as he falls into the water perceives a skull grinning at him from its depths. Conan loses consciousness but regains it a week later in the home of Thuribald, mayor of a small village. The mayor and his daughter, Naia, have found him and nursed him back to health in hopes that he can stop the pollution of the river by the mage Anaximander, who is under the employ of a man named Sophos, and conducting unknown experiments the byproduct of which taint the river and slowly rot the skin and weaken those who drink from it. Thuribald and Naia are unaffected because, in return for “favors” from Naia, they are provided a small supply of pure water. They promise Conan anything he wants from the village if he defeats the two pollutors, and Conan agrees, but not before he samples some of Naia’s favors himself. Conan makes his way to the small keep but is swiftly captured and thrown into an arena with another hulking giant, but this time Conan manages to communicate with it and discovers that the two giants were brothers captured by the sorcerer and mutated into giants. Anaximander has promised to return the giant, Grandall, to his normal state, but Conan and Grandall soon discover that is not possible. They also find out the purpose behind the experiments when Anaximander uses a potion to turn a metal statue into solid gold. Conan and Grandall attack and kill Sophos and Anaximander, but the giant loses his life in the process. Conan returns to the small villages and claims his reward. To Naia’s humiliation, he chooses a fine horse and rides away.

Savage Tales is Dead! Long Live Savage Tales                                               Page 26
A wonderous word about the new new Savage Tales

The Legacy of Greenberg                                                                                   Page 28
Conan in the 1950’s and 60’s! Where were you in ’62, Thoth-Amon?

Spell of the Dragon                                                                                              Page 33
Writers: Dan Adkins & John Jakes
Artists: Dan Adkins & Val Mayerik
Inker: Joe Sinnott

Story (Spoilers!)
In a world that is not our own, Brak the Barbarian learns that men are everywhere treacherous – and that trust in aught but one’s own sword arm is a doomed man’s folly.

The Legend of the Lizard Men                                                                            Page 43
Writer: Stan ‘The Man’ Lee
Artist: John Buscema
Inker: John Buscema

Story (Spoilers!)
Ka-Zar, Lord of the Hidden Jungle! the Sabretooth! But can even such as they survive the deadly onslaught of Iranda and her Hordes of Creeping Horror?

Savage Mails                                                                                                         Page 62
At last! Harlan Ellison speaks! Fritz Leiber writes! The letters page that time forgot

Collectible Entertainment comment: There is no finer entertainment than the vintage black and white graphic magazines of the 70’s with their epic story-lines 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!!

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

Publisher: Marvel Comics / Magazine Group / Curtis
Publication Date: July 1974
Format: B&W, 68 pages, Mag, 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.  Very Highly Recommended.

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