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CATALOG RECORD

Conan the King #26

Marvel · Series began 1984 · January 1985

Dates

Cover date
January 1985
On sale
September 4, 1984
Pages
52

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #26 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct edition$1.00 cover

    Direct

    No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

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  • Newsstand edition$1.00 cover

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 0714860248001 · shared with another edition

    This edition’s page
  • Canadian price edition1.25 CAD cover

    Canadian

    Printed cover price 1.25 CAD.

    Barcode 0714860248001 · shared with another edition

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Michael Wm. Kaluta, Marc Silvestriinks: Michael Wm. Kaluta, Geof Isherwoodcolors: Michael Wm. Kaluta, George Roussosscript: Alan Zelenetz, Christopher Priest, Larry Hamaletters: Rick Parker

Stories

  • Passage · 26 pages

    An aging and tired Count Trocero is returning to his home in Poitain, and suffers from disturbing dreams from his past. King Conan, believing his eldest son, Conn, dead, grows restless in his role as king, and Zenobia fears he may leave Tarantia soon. Prospero tests new recruits who wish to become Black Dragon legionnaires. Taurus finds a love note sent from Leonidas to Radegund. Once home, Trocero is reunited with his aged father, who can no longer remember his son, and with Amanda, the woman he fell in love with many years ago.

  • Untitled · 13 pages

    Prince Conn, disillusioned with his father after meeting his half-brother, Kang Sho, decides to settle in Paikang. He marries Li-Tan, the Khitai maiden he rescued, and suffers from dreams about his father's unfaithfulness to Zenobia with Kang Lou-Dze, who later gave birth to Kang Sho. With war looming, the villagers are forced to flee Paikang. Conn has dream sequence conversations with both his mother and father, and later decides to join with other Paikang warriors to fight in the upcoming war.

Characters

Conan

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