Creatures on the Loose #10: King Kull in "The Skull of Silence!"

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Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by American writer Robert E. Howard, also creator of Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. The character was more introspective than the subsequent Conan, whose first appearance was in a re-write of a rejected Kull story.

His first published appearance was "The Shadow Kingdom" in Weird Tales (August, 1929). Kull was portrayed in the 1997 movie Kull the Conqueror by actor Kevin Sorbo.

Credits

Script: Roy Thomas

Pencils and inks: Bernie Wrightson (as Berni Wrightson).

Colors: Marie Severin

Reprinted:

• in Savage Tales (Marvel, 1971 series) #2 (October 1973).

Sword of Sorcery #1: "The Price of Pain Ease"

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Sword of Sorcery was a sword-and-sorcery comic book featuring Fafhrd the Barbarian and the Gray Mouser, heroes and rogues created by Fritz Leiber. Published bi-monthly by DC Comics, it ran for five issues in 1973, with a cover price of 20¢.

#1: March-April 1973
untitled story — "adapted from Fritz Leiber's story, 'The Price of Pain Ease'" (1970 Swords Against Death, coll.)

* Writer: Denny O'Neil
* Pencils: Howard Chaykin
* Inks: Neal Adams
* Cover: Howard Chaykin (pencils) and Michael Wm. Kaluta (inks)


























Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery heroes created by Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) and loosely modelled upon himself and his friend Harry Otto Fischer (1910-1986). They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories.

The stories have been collected in the Swords series:

1. Swords and Deviltry (collection 1970)
1. "Induction" (vignette 1970, first publication)
2. The Snow Women (novella 1970 Fantastic)
3. "The Unholy Grail" (novelette 1962 Fantastic)
4. Ill Met in Lankhmar (novella 1970 F&SF)—telling how Fafhrd and the Mouser met, this story won both a Nebula award and a Hugo award


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Savage Sword of Conan #14: "Shadows In Zamboula"

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Shadows In Zamboula
Conan / story / 39 pages

Script: Roy Thomas
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Neal Adams and Tony deZuniga (as The Tribe).

Genre: sword and sorcery
Reprinted:

* in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #17 (September 1988).

Robert E. Howard adaption, credits from the letter pages of Savage Swords #14 & 16.



A King Kull Glossary
text article / 7 pages

Script: Fred Blosser
Pencils and inks: Michael Whalen (signed M); Michael Kaluta (signed MWK); Al Milgrom (signed AM)


The Silver Beast Beyond Torkertown
Solomon Kane / story / 11 pages

Script: Doug Moench
Pencils and inks: Mike Zeck

Genre: sword and sorcery
Characters: Solomon Kane
Reprinted:

* in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #36
* in Saga of Solomon Kane, The (Dark Horse, 2009) [nn]

Notes:

On the contents page the title was given as "The Silver Beast Out of Torkertown."







































































Special surprise bonus download: Neal Adams art prominently featured in Cartoonists And Illustrators Portfolio V3, published by Supergraphics in 1978:


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