WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Duron (Red Slayer, Marvel) — first appearance, death
Dates
- Cover date
- April 1972
- On sale
- January 25, 1972
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #16 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition20¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Forbidden Swamp · 10 pages
Kull and Brule enter a temple to the Valusian snake-god which is guarded by a giant undersea beast. There he meets Thulsa Doom for the first time, who pretends to be an ally and asks to return with them to the City of Wonders.
- Where Walks the Ghost · 5 pages
An escaped convict looks to buy a house that has the reputation of being haunted so people will steer clear of him, but when he meets up with a real estate agent turns out to be the ghost that haunts the prospective property, he turns himself in to the police for his own protection.
- Mister Morgan's Monster · 7 pages
Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.
Characters
Reprinted in
Savage Sword of Conan Special (1975), Savage Sword of Conan (1975), The Chronicles of Kull (2009), The Savage Sword of Kull (2010), Kull the Destroyer: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (2021)