Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis third omnibus in the series collects issues #31-45 of Marvel's black-and-white magazine, The Savage Sword of Conan, along with the Giant-Size Conan #1-2 and the Conan the Buccaneer one-shot. Featuring classic tales by Roy Thomas, John Buscema, and other Bronze Age stalwarts, the volume follows Conan through grim adventures across the Hyborian Age, including adaptations of Robert E. Howard's original stories. The Direct Market variant cover offers an alternate dust jacket design for collectors.
"Child of Sorcery" in Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus #3 (2019) delivers a pulse-pounding tale of betrayal and survival in the realm of Asgalun, where Conan hunts his enemy Othbaal amid a web of rival mercenary armies and political intrigue. Written by Roy Thomas and brought to life with dynamic art by John Buscema, inks by Alfredo Alcala, and lettering by Alcala, the story follows Conan and the cunning Farouz—secretly Mazdak—as they navigate treachery, while slave girl Rufia’s desperate ruse to claim godhood ignites a firestorm of rebellion. The cover, by Earl Norem, captures the clash of empires in bold, dramatic strokes.
In "The Lair of the Ice Worm," Conan battles through treacherous snow-capped peaks, where he rescues the girl Ilga from a tribe of primitives. When the legendary Ice Worm emerges to claim her, Conan must face the beast in a desperate fight for survival.
In the war-torn city of Asgalun, where three mercenary armies serve a mad king, Conan tracks his enemy Othbaal through a web of deceit and betrayal. With the help of a mysterious ally who hides his true identity, Conan crosses paths with Rufia, a slave girl who dares to play god to survive—and ignite a revolution. As loyalties fracture and the city burns, the two flee the chaos as the factions tear each other apart.
In "[Hawks over Shem] Part 2: The Lion of Shem," Conan wages a deadly game of deception and vengeance through the crumbling city of Asgalun, where three mercenary armies—Anakian, Kushite, and Hyrkanian—rule under the tyrannical grip of the mad king Akhirom. With the help of Farouz, a man whose true identity hides a deeper agenda, Conan tracks down Othbaal while a slave girl named Rufia, desperate to survive, turns the king’s madness against him. As alliances fracture and the city teeters on chaos, Conan and Rufia flee as the factions tear each other apart, their escape a desperate bid for freedom in a world where gods are lies and loyalty is a weapon.
In "[Hawks over Shem] Part 3: The God that Tried to Fly," the streets of Asgalun burn beneath the rule of the mad king Akhirom, his throne propped up by three ruthless mercenary armies. Conan, driven by vengeance against the Anakian commander Othbaal, finds an unlikely ally in Farouz—though the man’s true identity hides a deeper game. When Othbaal’s slave girl Rufia, desperate to survive, convinces Akhirom he is a god, the fragile order begins to crumble. As the city teeters on chaos and loyalties fracture, Conan and Rufia must flee the palace’s wrath, escaping just as the factions tear each other apart.
In "The Road of the Eagles [Part 1]," Conan leads his pirates in a relentless pursuit of the ruthless Turanian general Artaban, who slaughtered their wounded comrades. As Artaban rescues the slave girl Roxana from Hyrkanian raiders and takes her to Gleg the Zaporoskan’s fortress to save Prince Teyaspa, Conan forms an uneasy alliance with Vinashko, a former Yuetshi chief who reveals a hidden path into the castle. The story unfolds with high stakes and shifting loyalties, as vengeance, survival, and fate collide in the shadow of a cursed stronghold.
In "[The Road of the Eagles] Part 2: The Hour of the Undead," Conan leads his pirates in a relentless pursuit of the treacherous Turanian general Artaban, whose brutal murder of their wounded comrades ignites a personal vendetta. As Artaban rescues the slave girl Roxana from Hyrkanian raiders and reluctantly takes her along to free the imprisoned Prince Teyaspa, Conan forms an uneasy alliance with Vinashko, a former Yuetshi chief who reveals a hidden path into Gleg the Zaporoskan’s fortress. With blood on the wind and demons closing in, Conan’s quest for vengeance leads to a deadly confrontation—but when the castle falls, only the wreckage remains, and the survivors face a fate far darker than death.
In "Legions of the Dead," young Conan teams up with Jarl Njal and his Aesir band on a perilous mission into the frozen wilds of Hyperborea to rescue Njal’s daughter, Rann, taken by the Witch-men of the Haloga fort. After a scouting party is brutally captured and killed, Conan slips inside the fortress, rescues Rann, and narrowly escapes—only to be seized by the Witch-men’s queen, Vammatar, who unleashes a horde of the undead upon him.
In "The Star of Khorala," Conan arrives in Ophir with a priceless gem, only to find Queen Marala imprisoned by her own husband. With the help of Captain Garus, he breaks her free, but the king’s treacherous cousin Rigello and his men are hot on their heels. Trapped in a crumbling ruin, they face certain death—until the spectral warriors of Marala’s forgotten past rise to defend them.
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↩ Reprints Marvel Treasury Edition #19 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #29 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #30 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #31 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #32 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #33 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #34 (1978), Marvel Super Special #9 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #35 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #36 (1978), The Savage Sword of Conan #37 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #38 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #39 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #40 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #41 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #42 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #43 (1979), The Savage Sword of Conan #44 (1979), Conan Saga #80 (1993)
Reprinted in Savage Sword of Conan - Classic Collection #3 (2022), A Espada Selvagem de Conan #19
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