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by Robert E. Howard
Originally published in Weird Tales, for July, August, September and October,
Popular Fiction Publishing Co. (1936)
Reprinted in The Sword of Conan, by Robert E.
Howard, Gnome Press, Inc., NY (1952)
Adapted in black and white in the comic magazine Savage
Tales No. 2 (1/3), Savage Tales No. 3 (2/3), and Savage Tales No. 3 (3/3), edited by Roy Thomas,
artwork by Barry Smith, Marvel Comic Group, NY (October 1973, February 1974)
Adapted in color in the comic magazine Marvel Treasury Edition, featuring Conan the
Barbarian vol. 1, no. 4, edited by Roy Thomas, artwork by Barry Smith, Marvel Comics
Group, NY (1975)
Current source: Conan the Warrior, by Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de
Camp, Lancer Books, Inc., NY (1967)
| For some two years, as captain of the Wastrel, Conan continues a highly successful career as a freebooter. However, the other Zingaran pirates, jealous of the outlander in their midst, at last bring him down off the coast of Shem. Escaping inland and hearing that wars are in the offing along the borders of Stygia, Conan joins the Free Companions, a band of condottieri under the comnwnd of one Zarallo. Instead of rich plunder, however, he finds himself engaged in uneventful guard duty in the border post of Sukhmet, on the frontier of the black kingdoms. The wine is sour and the pickings poor, and Conan soon gets tired of black women. His boredom ends with the appearance in Sukhmet of Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, a wonwn pirate whom he had known in his Barachan days. When she takes drastic measures to repulse a Stygian officer, Conan follows her south into the lands of the blacks. |
Chapters:
- The Skull on the Crag
- By the Blaze of the Fire Jewels
- The People of the Feud
- Scent of the Black Lotus
- Twenty Red Nails
- The Eyes of Tascela
- He Comes from the Dark
