POLEDOURIS exourmanEDWARD SUMMER ssrnrnowneD, CONSTANTINE CONTE we EDWARD R. PRESSMAN [MANY A MAN HAS RISK! AF afremmPrine 1 piLreR he Baiccoees few Les, THE DARING DEED. NOI POSSESSION, NE FLED FOR DOOM'S MADDENED FOLLOWERS... WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO CLIMB DOWN I WME, GIRL! THOSE DAMNED REPTILE WORSHIPPERS ARE RIGHT BEHIND US! OF WICHAELFLEISHER = JOHNBUSCEMA © GEDRGEROUSSOS = JOEROSEN LOUISE JONES JIM SHOOTER GLENN LORD bore oo sein prin be ete aor fier tiarietie tdi PRERTENOW ‘CONAN THE BARBARIAN MOVIE SPECIAL Vol. No.2, Nvoember 1982. Pubisres by MARVEL COMICS CAQUP. James E. Gallon, Proadent Stan Low Pubisher ‘onan Hobson Ue Preagen, Pubshng Hin Schitran Vice Present, Progucton OT Ick OF PUBLICATION, 387 PARK AVENUE SOUTH. NEW VORK. NY. 10916 Conan Properes. no. 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EVEN MY OWN FIERCEST WARRIORS DAUGHTER HAS FALLEN SLINK CRAVENLY FROM UNDER THAT DEMOW'S: WEIR DUTY, ONLY YOU SPELL! THREE HAVE DARED TO DEFY THAT, FROM THE, UNPLUMBED DEPTHS OF MAY SOUL, Z, KING ‘OSRIC OF ZAMORA, SALUTE YOU ALL! DEMIGODS, THULSA DOOM!T HAVE SUMMONED AYE, BARBARIAI EVEN’ AS WE SPEAK, MY ATER “TRAVELS EAST TO THULSA DOOM AND His CuRseD ‘MOUNTAIN i AT YOUR AYE! THEY [take EXoucH oF cémmand.| | Axe Rusies! Them To Become Sire! |\ Kings Yoursewves: ONLY SWEAR TO ME THAT) YOU WILL BRING MY DAUGHTER BACK! I EASTWARD TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN. OF POWER... AND ALs6:suseTal. SCARCELY EVEN FATHOM MY NEED TO PURSUE IT?NANO MAYHAP THAT IS THE WAY CROM INTENDED VT, AND iF THAT (6 sd-* “THEY TOLD ME THE WAY TO THE MOU! “FINALLY Z FOUND (EAA \ “euT £ [IGNORED THEIR ENTREATIES AnD RODE ON SAND Ringeo STAKES ON ROUND THEM WERE WHICH WERE |MPALED / FIED GODIES en | aoa Die BY THULSA BOOM.15 IT YOU WHO cares FOR THESE STRANGE MOUNDS, OLD ONE?, NO ONE BOTHERS AXe HERE! NOT EVEN THULSA DOOM! THIS THULSA DOOM... DO YOU KNOW HIM WELL? FOR THERE (3. EVIL ON THAT MOUNTAIN! THEY ARE AUL Decevers THERE! DE- CeWeRs! SAND THE FOLLOWING HORNING, AS THE BUN ROSE.. KEEP THE BLADE WELL-OILED, WIZARD! AND FEED THE HORSE!FROM WITHIN THE warowen conrites ‘ARE YOU A Priest? TOGETHER, OVER HERE! ALONE! WE al M wo ES “- MINGLED WITH THE OTHER PRIESTS FILING SILENTLY INTO THULSA DOOM'S FORBIDOING HOUSE OF WORSHIP.(EMMY MEDALLION. -- ings Ac NEARED THE ENTRANCE, HE MAND SO/WHEN MY TURN CAME, T BHOWED THE SioweED TH DALLION VERY LIKE THe ONE WKH T ‘HAD STOLEN EROM SET TOWER iN pad RATHER, A KIMD OF 8 LANGUAGE, BADE ME) “my Ruse NBUT ALAS IN My AGE Fawles aae nor Ror awa AS THEY SEEM! HAVE LIED To YoU AND LEO YOU ASTRAY!)“IM THE NEXT SOUL- NUMBING iNeTANT SCORE OF /AAILSD HANDS DESCEND! IF ONLY CROM HaD. A PNINUTE LONGER, Mave Kictee YOU TOO: You Kitten my FATHER AND MOTHER! YOU TOOK MY FATHER'S: + 3WORD...! YES-- AND LOOK WHAT IT s\ADE OF YOu! Te STRENGTH OF “OUR BODY=- THE WILL IN YOUR EYE: RExoR! CRUCIEY Was"ON THE DES! LATE, WEATHERED PLAIN BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN. | OF POWER, THEY NAILED ME TO THE TREE OF WOE... "THE TREE WAS STARK AND BLACK, LIKE A. "| SHARRED Bonen Twistreb spines SWUTCHING UP LIKE skeceTons INTO THE BURNING, ORANGE SKY". HEATED IRON | ME THE GROUND SHIM MERED ‘tue yucrures 4 DIPPED AND Ue He! SRIRTED IN as WINDLESS Nog wou THEY NEED TO Keep THER MORBIO VIGIL MUCH LONGER, Pwoulp ner if 4 SURNWVE TO, GREET ANOTHER DAWN. | "AND THEN SUDDENLY FROM AMID THE RIPPLING waves pe OF HEAT A FORM AROSE. "Twas THE FORM 2 MAN, RUNNING EFFORT: LESsuy ACROSS ThE VAST RED LANDSCAPE, INDIFFERENT TO THE HARSH TERRAIN OF THE BROILING HEAT "OF THE SUN... “IE KNEW OF GNLY ONE: SREED OF *AAN IN THE WORLD THAT COULD RUN THAT WAY>~ A, HYRKANIAN STEPPE DWELLER... Fee SAND PRAISE CROM, T sveorar!He sayp_W If THE Goos Owe YOU WERE | YOU ANY FAVORS, A WIZARD! 4 BID THEM REPAY . THEIR DEBT TH BUT Se FoRe- WARNED! THE pe wizan tO METHODICALLY PAINTED | FACE AS SACRA ANS SUBOTA| WATCHED. = ~ - —— a ae SOMETIME TONIGHT THE aa ¥ Xt es ee eee SPIRITS WILL TRY TO TAKE “ > MED ITA z rs BA HANDS ANC HIM. IF THEY SUCCEED... = 7H 2 ING TO CLAIM HIM {THE GIRL HAS AYE, WIZARD! WON! THEY'RE GONE! THE SPIRITS, ARE GONE! ANY OEATH COULD BE! HELL TO FIGHT AT YOUR SIDE! “AS Z TOOK UP MY MIGHTY SWORD AGAIN, T BEGAN TO PONDER THE VENGEANCE THAT WOULD SOON 8E Aine ‘A GOOD THIEF COULD GET IN THERE AND AAAKE OFF WITH THE PRINCESS BE- FORG SHE WAS MISSED! ‘Gooo Thieves- buer SAID i Tus WiZARD GAYS THE Mourrain oF noniines» Power 1S HOLLOW!WTWAS NIGHTFALL BY THE Tene we REACHED THE GREAT RIVER-FILLED GORGE THAT GASKED THE EARTH LIKE A RAGGED SCAR BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN (OF PoweR— SAND picKeD our way uP THE — | MASSIVE CLIFFS NIT WAS A SCENE FROM CUT OF | *--70 TH MOUTH OF A GREAT CAVE LigTeD BY Tu! 3S Gi Ng THE SIGHT THAT COMFROWTED US WHEN AT LAST WE ENTEREO THAT PLACE =~ne A a ban VW “AG WE SAW THE ARCHFIEND THULSA DOG TRANSFORM HIMGELR INTO THE VERY IMAGE OF -- ‘OMMHH! THe: CURTAIN! FITS ON FIRE!N--AND I HACKED MY WAY PAST THEM WITH FLASH.FORTUNATELY, BY THE TIME He'D CUT IT THROUGH, WE ONLY HAO EIGHT OR MINE CUBITS LEFT 7O FALL! ~— WAND, Yer At TWAT VERY INSTANT, ON THE ‘STONY LEDGE HIGH ABOVE,”__ [Pane gasoeo 1s Pam aa AY LAST BREATH irr ris S “TOP THE GREAT MOUND HBAR THE WIZARD'S HUT WE LAY VALSRIOTO HER FINAL REST OM A PYRE OF DRIED WOOD, ne 15 conn, A SME clawenian! We chor, FROM HER PYRE DIO HOT \e SMOKE “Bisaitare, BUT ROSE STRAIGHT UP. INTO THE STARRY SKY...ENJOY THIS NEW DAY WHILE YOU CAN, WARRI- OR, FOR IT TWAS BORN OX A BATTLEFIELD GIRL! THE FinST SOUND T HEARD SHIELDS, ARMOR FOR YOUR WAS A SCREAM! T'VE BROUGHT YOU WEAPONS, COMING BATTLE WITH THE MEN OF THULEA DOOM ! LOOK, CONAN! suBOTAI HEY, OLD Man! WHERE DID YOU FIND THESE THINGS 7 Then Tet THEM TO STAY OUT OF OuR way WiLL THEY HELP us"WE PASSED WHAT LITTLE TIME REMAINED TO US DIGGING TRENCHES AND PREPARING TRAPS LINED WITH SE aa | war Wwibt /war.oup max! \ 3 = HAPPEN NOW? in “an wag a6 You've GRANT sAe JUST, “We TOOK Cover ONE THING. CRO! MOUNDS BEHINO H SLABS, AND BR FOR THEIR ATTA: A Bare: a AS« THAT YOU Le yi SSS eauest ry’ | Ee Hi | Ay! \HAVE A fase i cs "EVEN AS TWO MORE OF DOOMS SLAYERS THUNDERED DOWN ON ME-s Tyne BLOW CLANGED SAVAGELY AGAINST MY.HELMET AND SENT JAE REELING GROUNDWARD.... AND WHIRLING, t DOVE FOR oH OF THE cLosesT Pit! TT AWOKE To HOOVES THUNDERING DOWN UPON Ae== FROM W PANGS OF SeT) BLAST mE FOR Went y A MADMAN ITS == YALERIA! SHE'S GONE! BACH REXOR ONCE AGAIN Fan "Psa TaareNAY REXOR! YOUR CARVING Days ARE AT AN END/ PLEASE FREE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE MY LORD! DON'T LEAVE ME, MY FATHER!“TWILL TAKE BUT OWE OF My SERPENT SHAFTS TO. “TWAS NOT ExacTLY THE GODS WHO SAVED YOUR TENDER HIDE, Princess! aye, PRINCESS! V you Wee Sack BeLaveo ANASTER WOULD HAVE KILLED YOu JUST ROW! AND NOW 5 MUST KILL D YOu Hin. AW, NO MY CHILO! You WILL NOT KILL ME, FOR WHAT SOM WOULD. KILL MIS Own FATHER? ANO WHO. 1S YOUR PATHER IF IT IS HOT ME? UNDERSTAKO-- WAS IT NOT YOUR HATRED FOR ME WHICK GAVE YOU THE WILL TO ENDURE WHEN YOU TOILED ENDLESSLY ON THE WHEEL OF PAIN? LAM THE WELLSPRING FROM WHICH YOU FLOW! WHEN T AM GONE, YOU WILL Have NEVER BEEN! WHAT COULD YOUR WORLD, POSSIBLY BE WITHOUT METYOU. . .YOU WOULD MY SO. NNNGGHHAH. KILL YOUR OWN... STKE ANSWER WAS NOT In AY RATHER THE BLADE, BUT IN THE MAK. THULEA DO: NAS FOR DOOMS SO-CALLED CHILDREN, THEY WERE & MYSELF, NOW SO MANY ORPHANS, BUT NOW, LIKE A) THEY WERE PREE AT LAST...”