Appearing in "A New Dawn... a New World!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ Shanna the She-Devil ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Zabu ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Lemurans (First appearance)
- Leanne, Queen of Zarhan ⏵ (First appearance)
- Felina (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Cat People (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Robert Plunder (Only in recap)
- Parnival Plunder (Only in recap)
- Man-Apes (Only in recap)
- Maa-Gor (Only in recap)
- Ayn Rand (Mentioned)
- Lemuran soldiers (First appearance)
- Captain of the guard (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Wolves
- Woolly Rhinos
- Unnamed species of Dinosaurs
- Great cats / sabre-tooth cats (Main story and recap)
- Man-Apes (Only in recap)
- Mental Giants (Mentioned)
- Warthogs (Mentioned)
- Baboons (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Antarctica
- Savage Land (Main story and recap)
- Pangea (First appearance)
- Zarhan (First appearance)
- Lemura / Lamura (First appearance)
- Zarhan (First appearance)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- World Trade Center (Only in recap)
- Scarsdale (Mentioned)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- Antarctica
Items and Concepts:
- Anti-Metal (Mentioned)
- Thelic (First appearance)
Synopsis for "A New Dawn... a New World!"
Ka-Zar is having a midlife crisis. He's wondering if he should give up the jungle life and head to the comforts of modern civilization. He parts ways from Shanna for a bit to try and find Zabu, who has uncharacteristically wandered off.
After a journey that lasts for days, Zabu's trail leads Ka-Zar to a vast new land outside the boundaries of the Savage Land, which he'll eventually learn is called Pangea. He meets a woman called Leanne who owns a female pet saber-tooth. After rescuing her from some savages, he learns that she is the queen of a a large medieval city called Lemura. They have a brief affair, but she breaks up with him because she feels that he's too uncivilized to live happily in her city.
Notes
- Starting with this issue, Ka-Zar is portrayed with a radically different personality than he had previously been portrayed with. A flashback in Ka-Zar the Savage #5 will later explain this change in characterization.
- As revealed in Marvel Fanfare #3, soon after Sauron was reborn in Marvel Fanfare #2, first Ka-Zar and Zabu, and then Shanna, vanished from the Savage Land. Unknown to anyone in the Savage Land, their disappearance was because they had discovered and entered Pangea.
- Since Tongah was alive and well when Sauron was reborn, the flashback in Ka-Zar the Savage #5 (in which both Ka-Zar and Zabu appear) must take place between Marvel Fanfare #2 and this issue.
- The name of Queen Leanne's city is spelt inconsistently, initially as "Lamura" but later as "Lemura."
Trivia
- The next month, Bruce Jones wrote "The Children of Rhan" in Savage Sword of Conan #64 (May, 1981), in which he also mentioned Thelic, and introduced the isle of Zahrahn, a seemingly pre-Cataclysmic isle.
