Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 2

Alternate Covers: Textless Cover Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 #2 Published October, 1974 Editor-in-Chief Len Wein Cover Artist Neal Adams "Black Colossus" Writer Roy Thomas Penciler John Buscema Inker Alfredo Alcala Colourist Black and White Adapted from original material by Robert E. Howard Editor Roy Thomas Marv Wolfman Tony Isabella "Blackmark (Chapter 2)" Writer Gil Kane Archie Goodwin Penciler Gil Kane Inker Gil Kane Colourist Black and White Letterer Typeset Editor Roy Thomas Marv Wolfman Tony Isabella "The Beast from the Abyss" Writer Steve Englehart Penciler Howard Chaykin Inker Crusty Bunkers Russ Heath Neal Adams Dick Giordano Alan Weiss Colourist Black and White Adapted from original material by Robert E. Howard Lin Carter Editor Roy Thomas Marv Wolfman Tony Isabella Previous Issue Next Issue Savage Sword of Conan #1 Savage Sword of Conan #3

Appearing in "Black Colossus"

Featured Characters:

• Conan

Supporting Characters:

• Princess Yasmela (First appearance)
• Yasmela's counselors (First appearance)
  • Malthom (First appearance) (Leader of the lancers)
  • Count Thespides (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Leader of the Knights)
  • Taurus (First appearance)
• Army of Khoraja (First appearance)
  • Knights (First appearance)
  • Light cavalry (First appearance)
  • Khoraja spearmen / Maltholm's lancers (First appearance)
  • Archers (First appearance)
  • Fahim (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

• Thugra Khotan / Natohk, the Veiled One (First appearance) (Death) (Main story and flashback)
• Natohk's army / "Desert hordes" (First appearance)
  • Katuman, the giant rebel prince from Stygia (First appearance)
• Natohk's emissary (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Shevatas the Thief (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
• Vathelos (Referenced)
• Skelos (Referenced)
• Yasmela's handmaidens (First appearance)
  • Vateeza (First appearance)
• Priests of Ishtar (Mentioned)
• Forgotten Oracle of Mitra (Mentioned)
• Vateeza's father (priest of Mitra in Ophir) (Mentioned)
• Khossus (First appearance) (Yasmela' brother) (Vision)
• King of Koth (Amalrus)^[2] (Mentioned)
• King of Ophir (Mentioned)
• Ishtar / Asthoreth (Mentioned)
• Mitra (Statue and voice)
• Crom (Invoked)
• Bel, God of Thieves (Invoked)
• Set, the Serpent God (Mentioned)
• Zugite Cult (Mentioned)
• Mannanan Mac Lir (Invoked)
• Lir (Invoked)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Vampires (Mentioned)
• Werewolves (Mentioned)
• Camels (Main story and flashback)
• Black Scorpions

Locations:

• Earth (Main story and flashback)
  • Hyboria (Main story and flashback)
    • Ruins of Kuthchemes (First appearance)
    • Zamboula, Turan (Referenced)
    • Stygia (Referenced)
    • Acheron (Referenced)
    • Shem (Referenced)
      • Akbitana (Mentioned)
    • Zamora (Mentioned)
    • Zingara (Referenced)
    • Koth (Mentioned)
    • Ophir (Mentioned)
    • Corinthia (Mentioned)
    • Cimmeria (Mentioned)
    • River Shushan (Mentioned)
    • Khoraja (First appearance)
      • Khoraja (First appearance)
        • Palace (First appearance)
          • Shrine of Mitra (First appearance)
    • Well of Altaku (Mentioned)
    • Pass of Shamla (Mentioned)
• Hell (Invoked)

Items:

• Iron-Bound Books of Vathelos and Skelos (Referenced)

Events:

• Hyborian Age
  
  

Synopsis for "Black Colossus"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in "Blackmark (Chapter 2)"

Featured Characters:

• Blackmark

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "Blackmark (Chapter 2)"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in "The Beast from the Abyss"

Featured Characters:

• Kull

Supporting Characters:

• Picts
  • Brule
  • Monartho (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
  • Grogar (First appearance)
• "Beast from the Abyss" / Zugthuu the Slitherer (Only appearance; dies)^[1]

Antagonists:

• Kamulaans
  • Baron Ergon of the Northern Shore (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
  • Zareta (Only appearance; dies)^[1]
  • Taligaro, the elfin poet (Only appearance; dies)^[1]

Other Characters:

• Prince Mandara (Mentioned)
• Valka (Invoked)
• Hotath (Invoked)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Gods in demonic form^[3]
• Tigers (Referenced)

Locations:

• Earth
  • Thuria
    • Valusia
      • Northern Shore
        • Kamula
      • City of Wonders (Mentioned)
  • Atlantis (Referenced)

Events:

• Pre-Cataclysmic Age
  
  

Synopsis for "The Beast from the Abyss"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  

Notes

• "Black Colossus" is adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard.
• "The Beast from the Abyss" is adapted from Robert E. Howard and Lin Carter's "Black Abyss" and was reprinted in Conan the Barbarian Annual #3 (Lin Carter completed an unfinished manuscript of Howard, and published it in 1967).
  • "The Beast from the Abyss" is also the name of an essay of Robert E. Howard.
• In "The Beast from the Abyss" inks credited to Crusty Bunkers (i.e. Heath, Adams, Giordano and Weiss).

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