hg ETT ae br rTi Come WITH Us, BACKTOTHE DARK CENTURIES WHICH SPRAWL Fgtaiitis Ai Te Oo OF i TUME-- TO'THE COME WITH US To THE RAW, UNTAMED WORLD OF--- CONAN THE BARBARIAN it published by MAGAZINE MANAGEMENT CO., YORK, N.Y. ly. Copyrigirt Mi Madi . 10022, Published bi-monthi rt te} 1970 by ‘Avanue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Vol. berEs But, THis BAY, THE BLOOD- OOKS BOWN ON EYE? SUN LL HE SLASH AND SAVAGERY OF COMBAT-- AS A RAIDING-| PARTY OF AES/R 00 BATTLE WITH ie Fire BORN SPEAK YouR PRAYERS, STRIPLING-- FOR, CAMP-SONGS ARE SUNG IN YANAHEIM OF THE PR 1S OF GONE. - I 2 aE ey fy MY LIFE IS i FOR WET GIVE: MANOT FOR YOUTO 2 a TAKE. a a 2 OWES: i, we ota AND-- 1 DO. NOT CHOOSE TO GIVE IT. IF SO, THEY'LL SAY HE WAS THE FA@S7- NAN OF THE VANIR TD FALLCONAN THE CIMMERIAMS \N TIME TO COME, A_NAME TO CONJURE WITH. BUT NOW, CONAN ISMERELY A MIGHTY- THEWED YOUTH, FRESH FROM HIS FIRST TASTE OF BATTLE AT VEWARILIM -~ AND BECOME A MERCENARY WITH THIS RAIPING- BAND FROM THE NEARBY BORDERS OF WINO-SWEFT MESGAARD--- - No AFFAIR OF MINE.. INE Dome My DAY'S WORK FOR AESIR GoLe. CRO! THEY Ji SHOULE NOT--! J” AND, BY i CROM-- THEY 4 SHALL NOT! 9<= ALL THE TIME SEEING WOTHING SANG THE VALIANT BEARPEP AESIR ANG THE THREE WHO | THEN.. S7RVKE-- ES +] (AE tS OWA” [| FoR we Tt THe TALL ONE |S HOLP tI read FALLEN! | BESET HIM--- CANNO IM LONG ED) you "THE NEXT INSTANT-- INSOLENT = eee , Gust BECAUSE YOU a SAVED My LIFE, 4 DONT CARE TO. SHALL NEVER RISE wg Sate seve AGAINE UNTILL 7ELL 7-5 Warr! WHAT IS ITTHE OTHERS ARE SHOUTING? TL NEVER, THOUGAT. you wouter MAY FRIEND,THEY'RE FZEZING- POWT HE'S RIGHT, Laps. \| YOU TAKE COMMAND THEN WE'VE WOW! FIRST WE BIND OUR | Q&/CKLY, BOY, FOR ONE i ~ WOUNDS AND BURY || I SAW JOIN OUR PARTY “THAT'LL TEACH 4 OUR DEAD, THOSE RED-HAIRED SCUM To COME SNEAK- (els \ é }| [GIVES THE ORDERS HERE. £* TAM CONAN “TIME ENOUGH THE “TO CARRY THE oe TO THE POGS'OWN CAMP. AN HOWEST CIMMERIAN, EH? WELL, OLAV 2/KES THAT. NOW, Z FIGURE THAT THOSE poss i a eee one ER--- Lou LIN oe eg caver a Gob, f AND ATTACK THEM FROM ABOVE. / | WEATHEREP HiDE, SURE \ rt | ENOUGH. ‘ano uere's | | aes ee Tat eee ES 2WHILE, NOT FAR CISTANT, i ANoTH CURSED BE BEHIND HASTILY-ERECTED 14 THE PAY We FIRST LOOTED THE BORDER e JESCAARCL AND, APART FROM HIS MEN SITS THEIR LEADER... TALL AND LITHE, Mie MING ALIVE WITH THE WILD CUNNING OF THE BEAST WHOSE HIPE HE WEARS--- THE WILY VOLFES “THE MEN GROW Ce eee. WITH GONDUR DEAD, “ HAVE WO WARRIOR STAND I.GOTO CALL UPON THI GOPS, To SéEK THEIR, FAVOR THIS DAY- q UTHEY KNOW FULL WELL THAT BRE THE! SUN SETS, SOFT, LAD. Lest YOUR ‘GRUMBLING REACH THE EARS OF| VOLEE HIMSELF. p L SEB YOUR (Ey a /, GREAT VOLFF.. ‘YOU WILL RENOIN HERE, UNTIL THE HOUR WHEN WE a] RETURN.+++ YOU SAIP CUR MEN WEREN'T } FOOLS, GREAT VOLFF+ YET, DIP CATTLE EVER AWAIT SLAUGHTER MORE, WILLINGLY 2 == AND. AVE-»- WITH STRANGE } A Geony GLOW FROM AG SYMBOLS ABOVE ITS ENTRANCE --- WHO ARE THEY, TO WELL IN THES= LONELY HILLS..- ANG HOW DID THE OLD ONE KNOW OUR MAMES ? THEY'LL FLEE; AFTER “THEY'VE MULLED IT OVER LONG ENOUGH, BUT EVEN THEN, THEY'LL FORM A Bre US AND THE VEN BETWEEN AB! WHET IS THIS 1 SEE BEFORE ME? & ya THAT WELL LEARN; HOTHAR, WHE! WE ACCEPT THEIR INVITATION. PERHAPS THEY CAN GUIDE Us THRU THESE TAINS ==» TO A PLACE WHERE OUR PURSUERS CAN WEVER FIN Us.YOU'LL FIND NO GoLD- “TRESSED TREACHERY KL HERE, WILY ONE. AND FT SAY, SCOFFER, THAT YOU NEED NOT FEAR SHARKOSH--- HE WHO 1S CALLED THE SHAMANS) Bere 1ER| BA My HAIR, WHEN I DID BY THE Gors! HAVE IT, WAS SCARLET / THIS PLACE IS A AS YOUR OWN. Cy with PF YOUR COMING WAS: NE INA VISION I HAG, WHEN LAST I GAZED INTO YONDER STAR- STONE: AY. YOUR WORDS SUFFICE IT TO SAY; IT CONCERNS WOULP BEST FIT A ‘THE BEAUTEOUS MANDPMAIDEN YOUTHFUL BARK WHO SITS BESIDE ME --- HAIR WHO BATTLES ~-- SHE WHOSE SMILE HAS MADE MORE nse : BEARABLE AN OLD vfnemie poweRs MAN'S SELF-EXILE. WHAT HAVE T TO LOSE 7 Lin- LEASH YOUR PHANTOM ARMY! OVER SLOWLY- PY CAMPFIRES=~- #EVIL ACHERON. THE MAMI PE} SKULK ABOUT BELOW, SUS- i PECTING f YOU WERE WISELY >| CHOSEN TO AVENGE |, THE RECENT BORDER A RAIDS, OLAV. BECAUSE, STRIPLING, THEIR LEADER VOLFF IG NOT AMONG THEM. THEN, FROM THE OLD SHAMAN'S “THAT WAS OL? WHEN ATL ANTS ONCE WAS MUTTERED AMONG THE PURPLE: FOWERED CITIES OF ANCIENT, HOW CAN THE “i YOUR JOY, OLAV? jl yOu DON'T AS LONG AS HE LIVES, NO AESIR, CAN SLEEP WITH. BOTH EVES, CLOSED. ANINGANTATION PAY L/P HISSES SANK-+- A SPI ATTACK, GROTHERSE A 21iNG FIRE SEEMS TO GROW, UNBANKEO; WITHIN THE SKY-SENT JEWEL ---AN EERIE) PUTRID, SLOW Fitts PACH CARESTl ino! Sf wat Souwe 1S THAT--- LIKE SHE BEATING OF & THOUSAND = ANGRY WINGS?SWOOP THE TRIO Fi He GROUND AND 1S REWARD- NOR POTHEY SPARE EITHER, TEsIeOR Z D BY A CRY SUCH AS WO VANIR IN THEIR Ee - a TWING MAN HAS HEAR VOICELESS ASSAUL' = : (4 Pown UPON THE eee aes “WET, OWE MAW STANOS THE "Be HURT CAN | (Bur, THe pay is Wor For ae For THE PAST FEW FATEAL SAVING--- AS A PINIONE? HEA SECONDS, YOUNG CONAN HAS WELD HAPE SPRINGS LPO! BACK FROMTHE ONE- SIDE? BATTLE OLAV FROM BEHIND i th =: FOR, ASOVE ALL ELSE, THE BARBAROUS CIMMERIANS DO FEAR THINGS SUPERNATURAL! Nee Spee St aN Ly CANOLE , THE FEAR-SPELL |S BROKEN!)Bout THe BARBARIANS ONLY I iAn BIERNITY LATER; CONAN ORIFTS BACK To THE W ESCORTED BY THE TOUCH THE WAFTING TRACE OF THE CARESS OF A BARBARIAN. YOUR | WHO Calis SE ha CONA) “THE PLACE OF PREAMS? WO, HANDSOME ONE, THERE SHALL BE NO SACRIFICE--- BUT ONLY A TRADE. THEY ALL DERIVE FROM THE YOU SPEAK STAR- STONE --» WHICH FORETOLP EVEN THAT You es oe Peel SORCERER OF SORTS --- BUT HIS POWERS ARE NOT TRULY, His OWN. WHAT PGES: ‘THEN, CONAN'S BLOOD RUNS COLD AS HE BEHOLOS ANEW THE WINGED DEM NEAR THEM, TWO SMIRKING HAN/@=+» ANO A WIZENED OLP ONE WHO CAN ONLY BE... THE SHA, O STAR-STON! Sachep Jewel WICH FELL LIKE RAIN FROI ane VANIR-MEN BE STILL SCOFFERS--- NOT Rue BELIEVES IN YOUR AWESOME POWER.J. VE US A SIGH OF THAT POMEL SO THAIS ‘CEREMONY OFWATCH IN HORROR NOW, A8 CATACLYSM ROCKS THEI , PLAN! Vag OFA Tee HERSELF FADES INTO LEGEND--~ Then, peroRe THE AMAZED EYES OF VANIR cr am ai « ANP THE THIF eaten HOLD A BABY GoRN | |ILooK UPON THAT BABE, Now | | Ang Now, Be WITNESS TOTHE | OR TRENTS (mareesnee..| |ERouN 12 4OUNe Bee | Moet AWESOME ST OE RECEIVING HIS BAPTISM OF FIRE AND SWORD AT DISTANT VENAR/UM, BUT A WINTER ‘GONE--~ ALL +=WHILE, NeaRBy, YOUNG CONAN WASTES) FEW PRECIOUS MOMENTS] TRYING TO FATHOM THE MYSTERIES OF _ TIME AN? SPACE... SINMERIAN CAN AAVE NO FUTURE. =*FOR HE ISTO BE OFFERED UP IN THE CEREMONY (2. OF TRANSFERRAL ai ae ene or he | THE HYBORIAN AGE. Y THE GODS! SEEM TO BEHOLD \. B FAR-OFF STYG/A--} UNDER ANOTHER NAMEN AN- OTHER TIME. BUTTE WIDE: BIRD SHAMAN = bem ; SLETIMATE | ee " FLOopS THE PIT-PARK CHANBE! aa fan's Sma UNTERSE, EE an enae _: a. THESE sicits * ++ HAVE DRIVEN ING MON HURLED STONE, AND BEG! CLin ANP STILL-THE Visions OW.» REVEAL! AN AGE HIS SLOW, UPWARD ‘WE WERE NOT MEANT TO LOOK OW “THINGS LIKE IS -- BEFORE)FRHEN, EVEN AS THAT CRY STILL ECHOES --- THE CIMMERIAN } HE'S Far STRONGER | MAYES YOU WiLL-- BUT FIRST, ts \ Bur youre HAS ‘WA THAN WE THOUGHT. { I'LL SEE YON STAR-STONE DEPTHS, I CALL FORTH £ + SHATTERED: vA we KNOW, CAME WoO MORE THE WUWGED FIENDS FROM, BEYOND, CONAN'S SIMPLE, BAR-- | |. WHILE THE YOUNG CIMMERIAN BARIAN MNP COULP NOT SCOOPS UP THE LITHE FORM OF HAVE GUESSED WHAT THE GIRL CALLEO 74@A--» AND e XT ASTHE| | FLEES IN MORTAL TERROR FOR BOTH THEIR LIVES 2000ANP BEHING THEM, THE WINGED ONES FADE SWIFTLY BACK INTO THAT DIM NETHERWORLP WHICH SPAWNED THEM, LIKE STRAWS CON- SUMED BY A HOLOCAUST-.- au NAN BEARS HIS LOVELY BURDEN | IN? THEM 7 YOU FOOL... OU YOU STILL-.. PONOT | | WHAT ARE you BARBARIAN FOOL--9B) | COMPREHEND. RAVING AgouT, HAN i BUT YOU WOMAN 2 YOU HAVE POOMEP NE..~ Na FEW FLEETING i ( CURSE THE MOMENT - OF WEAKNESS WHEN 1 T Fekr Piry FoR you!o** TRANSFORMED ANE INTO AN EARTHLY HANEMAID, TO LIGHT His LONELY h DAYS: (BUT HE COULP NOT KEEP ME WERE FOR- "ER--- UNLESS “TOOK + MY PLACE -- IN HY DISTANT WORLP->- ‘THEN, THERE 15 NO. NEEP FOR, FOunp you FAI Ro|HT- WINGED THOLGH TS FLIT ACROSS CONAN'S BRAIN += MEMORIES OF THE DREAD DEEDS OF THE DAY Ju: GONE=.- THE SLAYING OF A VALIANT: pees THE MARVELS OF AN INVISIBLE WORLD REVEALED--- IMAGES OF MANy~ TOWERED CITIES ANP DYING CONTINENTS AND--- AND--- - AND KINGS! AY, WASN'T THERE COMETING, ABOUTA KINGDOM? A VISION OF CONAN AS MONARCH OF | SOME UNGUESSED-AT LAND? LONG AGO AND 720 FANTASTIC TO TRODELE THE MIND OF A YOUTH WHO HAS NEITHER PAGGER NOR VENISON TO SUSTAIN HIM- ae IAGON IF A WHITE, WATCH: ING EYE... "THE JOURNEY HOME| RD... AND THERE ARE NO REALITIES WORTH THE q WISHING, SAVE FOOD ANE