Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 12

Part of the "The Hyborian Age" story arc Alternate Covers: Textless Cover Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 #12 Published June, 1976 Cover Artist Boris Vallejo "The Haunters of Castle Crimson" Writer Roy Thomas Penciler John Buscema Inker Alfredo Alcala Adapted from original material by Robert E. Howard "The Hyborian Age Chapter 3 The Hyborian Kingdoms" Writer Roy Thomas Penciler Walt Simonson Inker Walt Simonson Adapted from original material by Robert E. Howard Previous Issue Next Issue Savage Sword of Conan #11 Savage Sword of Conan #13

Appearing in "The Haunters of Castle Crimson"

Featured Characters:

•  Conan 

Supporting Characters:

• Zuleika (First appearance)
• Malthom of Nemedia

Antagonists:

• Raiders (First appearance)
• Mordek (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
• Khelru-Shan (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
• Skeletons

Other Characters:

• Zuagirs (Mentioned)
• Ishtar (Invoked)
• Bel (Invoked)
• Princess Yasmela (Mentioned)
• Rodrik of Koth (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Only in flashback)
• Crom (Invoked)
• Princess Corma (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Aballah Bin Khor (Mentioned)
• Khelru-Shan (Mentioned)
• Mitra (Invoked)
• Khelru-Shan's stronghold's guards (First appearance)
  • Ali-Bey (First appearance)
  • Unnamed captain of the guard (First appearance)
• Hari Bin Nasru (First appearance)
• Devil (Invoked)
• Astoreth (Invoked)
• Adonis (Invoked)
• Mephistopheles (Referenced)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Horses
• Gods (Invoked)
• Devils (Invoked)

Locations:

• Earth (Main story and flashback)
  • Hyboria (Main story and flashback)
    • Barren Triangle (First appearance)
      • Kizil-Bezzin (First appearance)
    • Zamboula (Mentioned)
    • Turan (Mentioned)
    • Kothian Kingdoms (Mentioned)
      • Khoraja (Mentioned)
      • Khauran (Mentioned)
    • Hyborian Kingdoms (Mentioned)
      • Nemedia (Mentioned)
      • Brythunia (Mentioned)
      • Zingara (Mentioned)
    • Cimmeria (Mentioned)
    • Shem (Main story and flashback)
      • Caste Crimson (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
    • Hyrkania (Mentioned)
    • Tamba-Syn (Only in flashback)
    • Khelru-Shan's stronghold (First appearance)
    • Zamora (Mentioned)
• Ishtar's Realm (Invoked)
• Seven Hells (Invoked)

Events:

• Hyborian Age
  
  

Synopsis for "The Haunters of Castle Crimson"

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Appearing in "The Hyborian Age Chapter 3 The Hyborian Kingdoms"

Featured Characters:

• Hyborians
  • Hyperboreans (Replaced by another tribe who retained the name)
  • Kothians
  • Aquilonians
  • Bossonians (Aboriginal race mixed with Hyborians)
• Descendants of the Zhemri, became the Zamorans
• Atlanteans, became the Cimmerians
  • Conan
• Picts
• Stygians (Referenced)
• Sons of Shem, became the Shemites
• People of Nordheim
  • Vanir
  • Aesir
    • Tribe overthrowing and replacing the Hyperboreans^[2][3][4]
• Nameless band in the Valley of Zingg, merged with Picts then Hybori, became the Zingarans
• Lemurians became the Hyrkanians
• Black Kingdoms
  • Amazons (Referenced)
  • Kushitos (Referenced)
  • Atlaians (Referenced)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Horses

Locations:

• Earth
  • Hyboria
    • Hyborian Kingdoms
      • Zingara
        • Valley of Zingg
      • Hyperborea
      • Koth
      • Aquilonia
        • Bossonian Marches
      • Ophir (Drawing)
      • Nemedia (Drawing)
      • Border Kingdom (Drawing)
      • Corinthia (Drawing)
      • Brythunia (Drawing)
    • Zamora
    • Cimmeria
    • Pictish Wilderness (Referenced)
    • Stygia
    • Shem
      • River Styx (also called Nilus or Nile)
    • Nordheim
    • Inland Vilayet Sea (Referenced)
    • Turan
    • Black Kingdoms
      • Amazons Kingdom (Referenced)
      • Kingdom of the Kushitos (Referenced)
      • Kingdom of the Atlaians (Referenced)
      • Empire of Zembabwei (Referenced)
  • Western Sea (Referenced)

Events:

• Hyborian Age
• Lesser Cataclysm (Referenced)
  
  

Synopsis for "The Hyborian Age Chapter 3 The Hyborian Kingdoms"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  

Notes

• The Haunters of Castle Crimson is freely adapted from the story The Slave Princess by Robert E. Howard.
• The Hyborian Age is adapted from the essay by Robert E. Howard. It was later adapted in an abridged version in Conan the Adventurer #5, presenting events from Chapter I: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age (Savage Sword of Conan #7), Chapter II: The Rise of the Hyborians (Savage Sword of Conan #8), and Chapter III: The Hyborian Kingdoms.
• In The Hyborian Kingdoms, Conan appears in the last page, but the story itself does not feature him.

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