Welcome to Cimmerian September 2026! Along with many other bloggers, I'll be celebrating the legendary Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian.
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Let's get the swords unsheathed with Marvel's SAVAGE TALES #2 from October 1973. Check out the contents listing below for an all-star lineup of writers and artists sharing their sword and sorcery inspiration from the master adventure storyteller.
SAVAGE TALES
Vol. 1 No. 2
October 1973 (on-sale date June 26, 1973)
Marvel Monster Group (Marvel Comics)
Editor: Roy Thomas
Associate Editor: Marv Wolfman
Cover: John Buscema
Pages: 72
Cover price: 75-cents
CONTENTS
"Red Nails"
Script: Roy Thomas (adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard)
Art: Barry Smith (re-inked by Smith with additional work by Pablo Marcos)
"The Hyborian Rage" (text article by Roy Thomas)
"Robert E. Howard: Lone Star Fictioneer"
Script: Glenn Lord (from his bio-bibliography of Howard and adapted by Roy Thomas)
"Dark Tomorrow"
Script: Gerry Conway
Art: Gray Morrow
"Cimmeria"
Script: Roy Thomas (adapted from Howard's poem)
Art: Barry Smith
"The Crusader!" (reprinted from Black Knight #1 (Marvel, May 1955)
Script: ?
Art: Joe Maneely
"A Probable Outline of Conan's Career" (text article by P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark, PhD with an introduction by Roy Thomas)
"Tower of Shadows #10" (unused cover by Bernie Wrightson}
"The Skull of Silence!"
Script: Roy Thomas (adaptation of Kull of Atlantis story by Howard)
Art: Bernie Wrightson (as Berni Wrightson)
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