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Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	May 1971
Cover Price	0.50 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery; occult; science fiction; jungle
Pencils	John Buscema (painted)
Inks	John Buscema (painted)
Colors	John Buscema (painted)
Reprinted	In Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #1

11 page Conan story "The Frost Giant's Daughter"

Characters	Conan; Hymdul; Horsa; Niord; Gorm; Atali; Frost Giants
Synopsis	Setting: Snowy battlefield; Conan chases Atali across the snow, slays her two frost giant brothers, and catches her. Her father, Ymir then takes her from Conan.
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Robert E. Howard (Original prose story); Roy Thomas
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Notes	Adapted from Robert E. Howard's short story.
Reprinted	in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972) [modified]; in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 [as modified in Conan #16]; in Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (August 1974) [as modified in Conan #16]; In Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse, 2007 series) #1 [as modified in Conan #16]; In Essential Conan (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 [as modified in Conan #16?]

10 page Femizons story "The Fury of the Femizons"

Characters	The Sisterhood (introduction)
Genre	science fiction
Script	Stan Lee
Pencils	John Romita
Inks	John Romita
Notes	Continued in FANTASTIC FOUR #151.
Reprinted	In SAVAGE TALES #3 (February 1974); in Superhero Women, The (Simon and Schuster, 1977 series) #nn; In Warrior Women (Marvel UK, 1982 series) #[nn] (1982)

11 page Man-Thing story "The Origin of the Man-Thing"

Characters	Man-Thing [Ted Sallis] (introduction and origin)
Genre	occult
Script	Roy Thomas; Gerry Conway
Pencils	Gray Morrow
Inks	Gray Morrow
Letters	Gray Morrow
Notes	Next appearance of Man-Thing in ASTONISHING TALES #12.
Reprinted	in Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (November 1973); in Book of the Dead (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993); in Essential Man-Thing (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

11 page Black Brother story "Joshua's Burden"

Characters	Joshua (introduction and only appearance)
Script	Denny O'Neil [as Sergius O'Shaughnessy]
Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Tom Palmer
Notes	Next episode, "The Return", never published.

15 page Ka-Zar story "The Night of the Looter!"

Characters	Ka-Zar; Zabu; Carla (Introduction, Villain, Death); Ralph (Introduction, Villain); Swamp Men
Synopsis	Carla and Ralph come to the Savage Land with a Swamp Tank to steal Ka-Zar's vibranium, but when they force him to open the door to where it is stored the vibranium destroys the tank. Carla is carried off and killed by the Swamp Men when Ralph is not able to save her because the gun he was using only had blanks due to Carla replacing the bullets with blanks in an effort to get Ralph killed.
Genre	Jungle
Script	Stan Lee
Pencils	John Buscema
Inks	John Buscema
Notes	Panels 3-8 of page 10 and panels 1-3 of page 11 are not reprinted in the Astonishing Tales #14 reprint. Also, panel 6 of page 7, panels 1 and 2 of page 10 and panels 4 and 5 of page 11 of the original have altered dialogue in the Astonishing Tales #14 reprint. And finally, panel 3 of page 8, panel 5 of page 11, panel 7 of page 14 and panel 6 of page 15 of the original have been redrawn in the Astonishing Tales #14 reprint.
Reprinted	in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #14 (October 1971) [-1 page (panels 3-8 of page 10 and panels 1-3 of page 11) and some censoring of other panels and dialogue alteration]; in Savage Tales (Marvel, 1971 series) #6 (September 1974); in Conan le Barbar (Artima, 1979 series) #2 (July 1979)