Savage Tales No. 01 Conan the Barbarian Story: Roy Thomas Artist: Barry Smith Adapted from the story The Frost Giant's Daughter by Robert E. Howard

Comic adaptation reprinted in the comic book Conan the Barbarian #16, by Roy Thomas, artwork by Barry Smith, Marvel Comics Group, NY (197?)


Excerpted from...
The Story Behind the Scenes,
by Roy Thomas

...If you're a fan of heroic fantasy, you've already read it ten times in L. Sprague de Camp's introductions to the Lancer paperback editions of the adventures of Conan. ...Some will say it was inevitable that Conan and Marvel Comics meet sooner or later - and they did, smack in the middle of 1970, when Conan the Barbarian #1 electrified comic-book fandom. But that was merely the beginning; this is, perhaps, a culmination, Conan with the stops taken out.