Conan#1
Cover: Barry Windsor-Smith & John Verpoorten
Conan #1
“Conan, der Barbar”
writer Robert E. Howard · writer Roy Thomas · artist Barry Smith · inker Sal Buscema · inker Dan Adkins · cover Barry Windsor-Smith, John Verpoorten
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Full credits
writer Robert E. Howard
writer Roy Thomas
artist Barry Smith
inker Sal Buscema
inker Dan Adkins
cover pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
cover inks John Verpoorten
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Conan saves Lady Aztrias of Numalia from a pack of wolves. She hires Conan to steal from the wealthy merchant Kallian, who temporarily houses a mysterious bowl from Stygia, said to contain a great treasure. Conan burgles the merchant's house, finds the bowl empty and Kallian dead. The city guard appears and Lady Aztrias accuses him of killing Kallian. The real killer was in the bowl, however: a serpent-man, a big snake with a human head. Conan kills the sepent-man and saves Demetrio. In a vision, Conan sees the Stygian sorcerer Thoth-Amon.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).