The Stalker of the Snows

Stalker of the Snows
Name	Stalker of the Snows
Other Names	"Stalker of the Snows!" (part 1), "The Stalker of the Snows", "Stalkers of the Snows", "The Stalkers of the Snows"; originally "Conan and the Stalkers of the Snows"
Reality and Participants
Reality	Earth-616
Locations	Western Ocean; Silver Isles; Mountains of Madness, Leng, Frozen Land
Protagonists	Conan, Bêlit and the Black Corsairs, Ta-No
Antagonists	Stygians; Ghomli and his loyalists; the Snow Queen and "Snow-Skins"; Shoggoth
Publication Details
Comic Volume(s)	Conan the Savage; originally Marvel Graphic Novel
Creators	Roy Thomas, Mike Docherty
First	Conan the Savage #2 (August, 1995)
First	Conan the Savage #2 (August, 1995)
Last	Conan the Savage #4 (October, 1995)
Last	Conan the Savage #4 (October, 1995)

Synopsis

After the Black Corsairs, aboard the Tigress, boarded a Stygian ship, Conan and Bêlit found a snow-skinned girl in the captain's cabin. Returning to their base in the Silver Isles, they were faced by a rebellion led by Ghomli, and were forced to flee southwards, in the Frozen Land, into Leng and within the Mountains of Madness, where the snow-skins dwelt among the ruins of the cities of the Old Ones, fearful of the "Death That flows", the bane of the Old Ones.

Issues/Episodes

Conan the Savage #2

Conan the Savage #3

Conan the Savage #4

Notes

• "Stalker of the Snows" was written by Roy Thomas and Mike Docherty, with Part 2 of 3: "Into the Frozen Land", in Conan the Savage #3 (October, 1995), credited as featuring characters created by Robert E. Howard, and concepts from "At the Mountains of Madness" (Astounding Stories; February, March, and April, 1936) by H.P. Lovecraft and "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" (July, 1838; published by Harper & Brothers; previously uncompletely serialized in the Southern Literary Messenger) by Edgar Allan Poe, and the Conclusion "Within the Mountain of Madness", in Conan the Savage #4 (November, 1995), credited as featuring characters created by Robert E. Howard and concepts H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe.
• In Conan Saga #76 (July, 1993), in the Conan Comics Chronology, Roy Thomas announced a forthcoming graphic novel "Conan and the Stalkers of the Snows", as part of Conan and Bêlit's adventures before the tragic events of Conan the Barbarian #100. Instead, it was published more than two years later, in Conan the Savage (a black-and-white magazine considered by Roy Thomas as the "successor" "in many ways" of Savage Sword of Conan which ended with issue Vol 1 235 (July, 1995); from Conan the Savage #2 to 4 (September to November, 1995), as ("The") "Stalker of the Snows" (also the name of part 1), and in Conan the Savage #4, as ("The") "Stalkers of the Snows".

Trivia

• In "Into the Frozen Land" (Conan the Savage #3; October, 1995), the next issue is announced as "At the Mountains of Madness", the name of H.P. Lovecraft's novel, but in Conan the Savage #4 (November, 1995), the story is called "Within the Mountain of Madness".

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