Conan the Barbarian Vol 1 79

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	Published
	October, 1977
"The Lost Valley of Iskander!"
	Writer Roy Thomas; Penciler Howard Chaykin; Inker Ernie Chan; Colourist Don Warfield; Letterer John Costanza; Adapted from original material by Robert E. Howard; T.H. White; Editor Roy Thomas; Archie Goodwin;

I shall decide that, Bardylis! And if I decide he is lying -- he shall horribly DIE!!

-- King Ptolemy

Appearing in "The Lost Valley of Iskander!"

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Dragons from the sea (Recap)
Hawk-Riders of Harakht (Recap)
Hun-Ya-Di's party
- Hun-Ya-Di (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Ak-Ner (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
- Fa-Tah (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)

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The Lost Valley of Iskander is freely adapted from the story The Valley of Iskander by Robert E. Howard, a tale of El Borak discovering the legendary valley in which live Greek descendants of Alexander the Great.^[2]
- The original story when first penciled by Howard Chaykin had the inhabitants of the valley to be Atlantean descendants of men left there by King Kull, but Roy Thomas had had enough for a time of lost races from the past, and decided to take a page from T.H. White's The Once and Future King, in which old Merlin "lives backwards".^[3]
Goodwin is consulting editor.