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Series: Savage Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Savage Tales
Issue: 4
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: May 1974
Volume: 1

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Savage Tales #4 - Suscha News Pedigree
Owner: Rune Rasmussen

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:sword and sorcery
Characters:Conan


Story Title: [ no title ] - illustration
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:sword and sorcery
Characters:Conan


Story Title: [ no title ] - table of contents
Pages:1
Characters:Conan


Story Title: [ no title ] - foreword, introduction, preface, afterword
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset
Genre:sword and sorcery


Story Title: Night of the Dark God - comic story
Pages:21
Genre:sword and sorcery
Characters:Conan; nameless fisherman; Mala; Hagfar (in flashback); Mala's mother (in flashback); Tostig; Thorfel the Fair; Vanir; nameless Mithra priest; Brogar (Pict chief); Picts; Yag-Kosha (in flashback); Man-Serpent (in flashback)
Synopsis:Conan travels home to Cimmeria only to discover that his childhood sweetheart, Mala, has been abducted by a band of Vanir raiders. He pursues them by boat and comes across a ship with dead Vanir and Picts next to a dark idol. Conan takes the idol and heads for the Isle of Swords, where Thorfel the Fair is about to marry Mala. But rather than giving herself to Thorfel, Mala kills herself. Conan kills Thorfel and receives unexpected help from a band of Picts who have come to the island looking for their dark idol.


Story Title: Star-Crossed Swords - text article
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction; sword and sorcery
Characters:Conan


Story Title: Jason and His Electric Argonauts - text article
Features:Heroic Fantasy in the Films
Pages:5
Pencils:? (photographs)
Inks:? (photographs)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - foreword, introduction, preface, afterword
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Origin of the Crusader, Part 2 - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:historical
Characters:Crusader [El Alemain]; Saladin (villain, introduction); Sir Guy De Montfort (villain, introduction); Richard the Lion-Hearted (introduction)
Synopsis:Upon learning that he is actually Frankish nobility, the Saracen warrior known as El Alemein joins the Crusaders. Saladin appears and challenges King Richard the Lion-Hearted to a duel, but El Alemein offers to fight in the king's place and defeats Saladin. King Richard knights El Alemein and names him Lord O'Dare.


Story Title: The Hour of the Gnome - text article
Features:The Artists of Conan
Pages:5
Letters:typeset
Characters:Conan


Story Title: [ no title ] - foreword, introduction, preface, afterword
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset
Genre:sword and sorcery


Story Title: The Dweller in the Dark - comic story
Pages:16
Genre:sword and sorcery
Characters:Conan; Yulek; Queen Fatima; Yaila
Synopsis:Conan becomes Captain of the royal guard in the small city-state of Zahmahn as well as the lover of Queen Fatima. When the Queen catches Conan with the servant girl Yaila in a delicate situation, she leaves them in the dungeon to be devoured by the Dweller in the Dark. They manage to escape, however, and Conan throws the Queen to the monster. According to tradition, Zahmahn can only be ruled by a female sovereign, so Conan nominates Yaila as the new queen.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Conan


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:sword and sorcery


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