Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 65

Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 #65
Previous Issue	Savage Sword of Conan #64
Next Issue	Savage Sword of Conan #66
Art by: Joe Jusko
Release Date	April 7, 1981
Cover Date	June, 1981
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Jim Shooter

1. "The Fangs of the Serpent"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Michael Fleisher
Penciler(s)	Gil Kane
Inker(s)	Gil Kane
Letterer(s)	Rick Parker
Editor(s)	Louise Jones
2. "Death of the Mind - Rebirth of the Soul"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	John Buscema J. Marc DeMatteis
Penciler(s)	John Buscema
Inker(s)	John Buscema
Letterer(s)	John Morelli
Editor(s)	Louise Jones

Appearing in "The Fangs of the Serpent"

Featured Characters:

• 🢐 Conan 🢒 (Also appears in recap)

Supporting Characters:

• Unnamed necromancer/crone (First appearance)
• 🢐 Shamash-Shum-Ukin (Also appears in recap)

Antagonists:

• Tamera (First and only known appearance; dies)
• Xka'Ahk (First and only known appearance; dies)
• Unnamed lady (First appearance)
• Unnamed lady's Kushite servants (First and only known appearance; dies)
• Zamboulan guards
• Shamash-Shum-Ukin's Egyptian henchmen (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Zuagirs (Referenced)
• Satrap of Zamboula (Mentioned)
• Unnamed ferryman (First and only known appearance; dies)
• F'sarr Bel Trann (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Alhambra (Only in recap)
• "A certain carpenter" (Mentioned)

Deities and Invocations:

• Ishtar (Invoked)
• Set (Mentioned)
• Crom (Invoked)
• Mitra (Invoked)
• Aton (Invoked)
• Morrigan (Invoked)
• Macha (Invoked)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Birds
• Demons
• Horses
• Sharks (Referenced)
  • Dinosaurs (Only in recap) (Only in flashback)

Locations:

• Earth
  • Turan
    • Kharamun Desert
      • Zamboula
  • Tarantia (Referenced)
  • Vendhya (Referenced)
  • Shadizar (Referenced)
  • Khorshemish (Mentioned)
  • Khitai (Mentioned)
  • Cimmeria (Mentioned)
  • River Styx
  • Stygia (Hyboria)
    • Sukhmet
    • Gana-Seht
  • Vilayet (Referenced)
  • Kush (Mentioned)
  • Hyrkania (Mentioned)
  • Brythunia (Mentioned)
  • Akbitana (Only in recap)
    • Well at the Center of Time (Only in recap)
  • Atlantis (Only in recap) (Only in flashback)
  • Egypt (Mentioned)
• Seven Hells (Invoked)

Items:

• Amulet (First appearance)
• Fangs of Xka'akh (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• Ferryman's barge (First and only known appearance; destruction)

Events and Eras:

• Hyborian Age

Synopsis for "The Fangs of the Serpent"

While in Zamboula, Conanis is warned by a necromancer (an entrails-reader) of the danger of Xka'Ahk. He rescues the Brythunian servant girl Tamera from Shamash-Shum-Ukin's men. She says that by using the Fangs of Xka'Ahk they can destroy the demon.

Appearing in "Death of the Mind - Rebirth of the Soul"

Featured Characters:

• Bront (Emmanuel Cody # 09346-NW2)

Supporting Characters:

• Sorena (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Inquisitor (First and only known appearance)

Other Characters:

• Citizen 09339-NC7

Locations:

• Earth-81165 (First appearance)
  • Backworld (First appearance)

Items:

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Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "Death of the Mind - Rebirth of the Soul"

Citizen 09346-NW2 is condemned for crimes against society, mind-wiped, and exiled to the planet Backworld.

Notes

• The Fangs of the Serpent:
  • The story references Savage Sword Vol 1 7, the previous and first appearance of Shamash-Shum-Ukin.
  • Shamash-Shum-Ukin states that four or five millenia from then, there's "a certain carpenter who'll be performing miracles". While it seems an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, the datation seems wrong, as the Age of Conan is set about 10,000 BC.

See Also

• 2 image(s) from Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 65
• 1 reprint(s) of Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 65

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