Savage Tales No. 02 Red Nails Part One of Three The City That Time Forgot Story: Roy Thomas Artist: Barry Smith Adapted from the story Red Nails by Robert E. Howard

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)


Excerpted from...
The Hyborian Rage,
by Roy Thomas

... First and foremost, of course, is Barry Smith's and my adaptation of Red Nails, the last Conan story that Robert E. Howard ever wrote - and, according to such believers as Harlen Ellison and ourselves, one of his best.

... We couldn't work the whole thing into the twenty or so pages which Barry had time to do for the first issue, so we'll be polishing it off next time around. Barry labored for several months to make each page - nay, each panel - a veritable masterpiece.


Here are two series of panels that show Valeria's change in demeanor before and after their encounter with the dragon.