Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 33

Part of A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age arc

Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 #33

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Art by: Earl Norem

Cover Date

September, 1978

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

Jim Shooter

Appearing in "The Curse of the Monolith"

Featured Characters:

Conan (Only in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Turanian troopers (Main story and recap)
- Khusro (First appearance)
- Multai (First appearance)

Antagonists:

Golden Pheasant faction (First appearance)
- Duke Feng (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
Amorphous thing on the monolith (First appearance)

Other Characters:

Bardella (Mentioned)
Tarim (Invoked)
King Yildiz (Recap)
Juma the Black (Recap)
Yolinda (Recap)
King Shu (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
King Hsia (Mentioned)
Crom (Invoked)
Erlik (Invoked)
Ishtar (Invoked)
White Peacock faction (Mentioned)
Jagas (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Humans
Horses
Gods (Invoked)
Tigers (Mentioned)

Locations:

Earth (Main story and recap)
- Hyboria (Main story and recap)
  - Turan (Main story and recap)
    - Aghrapur (Mentioned)
      - Bardella's House of Pleasure (Mentioned)
    - Hyrkanian steppe (Only in flashback)
  - Talakma Mountains (Recap)
  - Khitai (Main story and recap) (Also appears in recap)
    - Kushan (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
      - Kushan (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
        Monolith of King Hsia (First appearance)
  - Cimmeria (Mentioned)
- Atlantis, Western Sea (Mentioned)
Hell (Invoked)

Events and Eras:

Hyborian Age
Great Cataclysm (Referenced)

Synopsis for "The Curse of the Monolith"

In a strange land east of Turan, young Conan faces unspeakable horror--and a fearsome power such as he has never known before!

Appearing in "A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part III"

Locations and groups:

Galparan (Referenced)
Galzai (Referenced)
Gamburu (Referenced)
Gate of Simura (Referenced)
Gazal (Referenced)
Gazali (Referenced)
Ghanara (Referenced)
Ghanata (Referenced)
Gharat Temple (Referenced)
Ghaza (Referenced)
Ghor (Referenced)
Ghori, Forst (Referenced)
Ghost Swamp (Referenced)
Ghosts, Gorge of (Referenced)
Ghouls, Forest of (Referenced)
Ghulistan (Referenced)
Giant Waterfall (Referenced)
Gleg, Castle of (Referenced)
Golamira, Mount (Referenced)
Goralian Hills (Referenced)
Gorge of Diva (Referenced)
Gorge of Ghosts (Referenced)
Graaskal Mountains (Referenced)
Grasslands of Kush (Referenced)
Gray Apes, Mountains of (Referenced)
Gray Lotus Swamp (Referenced)
Great Desert (Referenced)
Great Grove of Nuadwyddon (Referenced)
Great Salt Marsh (Referenced)
Great Stone Skull (Referenced)
Great Wall of Khitai (Referenced)
Grondar (Referenced)
Guarralid (Referenced)
Gunderland (Referenced)
Gundermen (Referenced)
Gurashah (Referenced)
Gwadiri (Referenced)
Hanumar (Referenced)
Harakht (Referenced)
Haunted Lands (Referenced)
Haunted Pyramids (Referenced)
Hawk Picts (Referenced)
Himelian Mountains (Referenced)
Ho, Lake (Referenced)
Hybori (Referenced)
Hyborian Kingdoms (Referenced)
Hyperborea (Referenced)
Hyrkania (Referenced)
Hyrkanians (Referenced)
Hyrkanian Steppe (Referenced)

Synopsis for "A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part III"

Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "Blades of the Brotherhood"

Featured Characters:

Solomon Kane

Supporting Characters:

Jack Hollister (also named "John Hollister" (Only appearance)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
Mary Garvin (Only appearance)^[1]

Antagonists:

Sir George Banway (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
Jonas Hardraker, the Fishhawk (Only appearance; dies)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
Sam (Only appearance)^[1]
Ben Allardine (Death)

Other Characters:

Sir Rupert, Magistrate (Only appearance)^[1]
Dick Randel (Only appearance)^[1]
God/The Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
French Army (Mentioned)
Zeus (Invoked)
Brotherhood of Buccaneers (Only in flashback)
Unnamed young girl (Corpse) (Only in flashback)
Unnamed young girl's father (Mentioned)
Sir Galahad (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Humans

Locations:

Earth
- England
  - Unnamed coastal village (Only appearance)^[1] (Main story and flashback)
  - Devon (Mentioned)
  - Dover, Kent (Mentioned)
- Caribees (Only in flashback)
- Channel (Mentioned)
- Baltic (Mentioned)
- Portugal (Mentioned)
Moon (Invoked)

Vehicles:

<Jonas Hardraker, the Fishhawk's ship (First appearance)
The Flying Heart (Only in flashback)

Synopsis for "Blades of the Brotherhood"

Off on a trail of vengeance, Solomon Kane--Puritan adventure-hero--blazes a bloody path across a continent.

Notes

The Curse of the Monolith is adapted from the story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.
Blades of the Brotherhood is adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard.
- The story was adapted a second time in Solomon Kane #3 (January, 1986).
This issue also includes the article "the tribes from time's abyss", detailing the story of the Picts during the Hyborian Age, by Fred Blosser.

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Footnotes

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