Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 146

Savage Sword of Conan #146
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Next Issue	Savage Sword of Conan #147
Art by: Daniel Horne
Release Date	December 15, 1987
Cover Date	March, 1988
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Tom DeFalco

1. "Blood Circus"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Chuck Dixon
Penciler(s)	Gary Kwapisz
Inker(s)	Ernie Chan
Letterer(s)	Kurt Hathaway
Editor(s)	Michael Higgins

Appearing in "Blood Circus"

Featured Characters:

• ⏴ Conan ⏵

Supporting Characters:

• Unnamed Kushite (First appearance)
• Retikus (First appearance; dies)
• Vestalia (First appearance)
• Empress Auraldia (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Guards (First appearance)
• Oleeta (First appearance)
• Starag (First appearance)
• Orestes Galvu (First appearance; dies)
• Tophius (First appearance)
• Ferix (First appearance; dies)
• Emperor Talliar (First appearance; dies)
• Imperial guards (First appearance)
• "Cats"

Other Characters:

• Orten (First appearance)
• Boar's Head's customers and wenches (First appearance)
• Gladiators (First appearance)
  • Unnamed "overzealous young Vanirman (Mentioned)
• Grakiar (First appearance)

Deities and Invocations:

• Crom (Invoked)
• Mitra (Invoked)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• "Cats"

Locations:

• Earth
  • Hyboria
    • Nemedia
      • Unnamed provincial village (First appearance)
        • Boar's Head (First appearance)
      • Beleverus (First appearance)
        • Fighting School
    • Cimmeria (Mentioned)
    • Kush (Mentioned)
    • Aquilonia (Mentioned)
    • Brythunia (Mentioned)

Events and Eras:

• Hyborian Age

Synopsis for "Blood Circus"

• Synopsis not yet written

Solicit Synopsis

Conan is enslaved, and forced to fight as a gladiator in decadent Nemedia. But when the lust-filled Empress of Nemedia sets her jaded eyes on Conan, his fight-filled future takes an intrigue-laden turn for the worse!

Notes

The issue includes a portfolio of illustrations by Armando Gil.

• The city of Belverus appearing in this issue was explicitly stated by Roy Thomas as not being Nemedia's capital, who refers to it as "New Belverus".

See Also

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