Savage Tales #2

Marvel Comics

United States

Published
October 1973
Page count
76
Cover price
0.75 USD
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/26786

Credits

Editing
Roy Thomas

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled [The City Time Forgot] (Conan) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Conan
Genre
Sword and sorcery

Credits

Painting
John Buscema
Letters
typeset
Editing
Roy Thomas

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Savage Tales (KG Murray, 1975 series) #13 ([December 1976?])
The City That Time Forgot
Printed in
in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #14
Show/hide 1. No title recorded Table of contents, 1 page

Credits

Script
Roy Thomas ?
Art
Pablo Marcos
Letters
typeset
Show/hide 2. No title recorded (Conan the Barbarian) Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Conan the Barbarian

Credits

Script
Roy Thomas ?
Art
? (photograph)
Letters
typeset

Notes

Introduction page to Red Nails.

Show/hide 3. Red Nails (Conan) Comic story, 21 pages

Featuring

Feature
Conan
Genre
Sword and sorcery
Characters
Valeria (introduction); Conan; Chicmec; Techotl

Credits

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Inks
Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Pablo Marcos (page 20 ?
21)
Letters
Gaspar Saladino (pages 2-9
15-21)
? (pages 10-14)
Barry Windsor-Smith (splash)

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Savage Tales (KG Murray, 1975 series) #13 ([December 1976?])
Red Nails

Synopsis

Conan and Valeria enter a mysterious walled city. After they become separated, Valeria discovers that the city is indeed inhabited.

Notes

Adapted from Robert E. Howard's story. Per "Still Waiting For The Absolute Barry-Windsor Smith Conan Volumes" in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005], Smith subsequently re-inked [including the 2 pages Marcos inked at the end of chapter one] the entire story, added additional details to splash page and elsewhere, and colored the story for its reprint in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #4.

Show/hide 4. The Hyborian Rage Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword, 2 pages

Featuring

Genre
Non-fiction

Credits

Script
Roy Thomas
Art
Al Williamson (illustration)
Letters
Typeset

Notes

Roy Thomas discusses the return of Savage Tales.

Show/hide 5. Robert E. Howard: Lone Star Fictioneer (Robert E. Howard) Text article, 5 pages

Featuring

Feature
Robert E. Howard
Genre
Non-fiction
Characters
Conan; Robert E. Howard (photo); Truett Vinson (photo); Tevis Clyde Smith (photo)

Credits

Author
Glenn Lord
Roy Thomas (abridged by)
Art
Frank Brunner
George Barr (illustrations)
Letters
Typeset

Synopsis

Extract from "The Last Celt" by Glenn Lord.

Show/hide 6. Dark Tomorrow Comic story, 11 pages

Credits

Script
Gerry Conway
Art
Gray Morrow
Letters
Gray Morrow

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Savage Tales (KG Murray, 1975 series) #12 ([September 1976?])
Show/hide 7. Cimmeria Comic story, 5 pages

Credits

Script
Roy Thomas
Pencils
Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Letters
typeset

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Savage Tales (KG Murray, 1975 series) #11 ([June 1976?])
Cimmeria
 
United States
The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #24 (November 1977)
Cimmeria
 
United States
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1983 series) #1 (1983)
Cimmeria
 
United States
Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #4 (August 1987)
Cimmeria
 
United States
Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #33 (Mid December 1989)
Cimmeria

Notes

Adapted from Robert E. Howard's poem. Smith's art is reproduced from the pencil stage.

Show/hide 8. Untitled [The Crusader] (Crusader) Comic story, 5 pages
Show/hide 9. A Probable Outline of Conan's Career (Conan) Text article, 6 pages

Featuring

Feature
Conan
Genre
Non-fiction; sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan

Credits

Author
P. Schuyler Miller
John D. Clark, Ph. D
Roy Thomas (introduction)
Art
Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (illustration)
Hugh Rankin (illustration)
Letters
Typeset

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Savage Tales (KG Murray, 1975 series) #11 ([June 1976?])
A Probable Outline of Conan's Career
 
United States
The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (December 1976)
A Probable Outline of Conan's Career
Show/hide 10. Tower of Shadows #10 - alternate cover (Kull) Illustration, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Kull
Genre
Sword and sorcery
Characters
King Kull

Credits

Art
Berni Wrightson
Letters
Morrie Kuramoto

Notes

Alternate unused cover for Tower of Shadows #10.

Show/hide 11. The Skull of Silence (Kull) Comic story, 7 pages
Show/hide 12. Next Issue (Conan) Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Conan
Genre
Sword and sorcery
Characters
Conan

Credits

Script
Roy Thomas ?
Art
Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (illustration)
Letters
Typeset

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 35126

Entry created

  • 24/11/2007

Cover added

  • 06/06/2010

Index completed

  • 11/06/2019

Last updated

  • 11/06/2019