Conan the Barbarian #1-65

[wolframbane]

*SPOILERS*!!

Spoiler:

Now that you have reached the part of the series that has Belit, immediately before her death in COB 100, the events of Conan the Savage #2/2-4/2 (1995) occurred. Its an adaptation of HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

Also check out this map of their travels.
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[StrayLamb]

CONAN the BARBARIAN #7 (July 1971)
By Roy Thomas & Barry Smith

APPEARANCES:
Conan, Aztrias (Numalia governor’s niece, also in fb), Kallian (hall of relics owner, also in fb), Arus (Kallian’s guard), Dionus (city guard prefect), Demetrio (city inquisitor), Numalia residents, Stygians (in fb), Karanthes (priest of Ibis, in fb), a Son of Set, Thoth-Amon

FLASHBACK:
Stygians drop off a giant bowl in Numalia and leave. The bowl is to be delivered to Karanthes (a priest of Ibis).
SYNOPSIS:
Conan is on the Road of Kings nearing Numalia when he saves a woman from attacking wolves. She lets him into the gated city and tells him about the bowl, and that she wants to him steal whatever’s inside it. Conan arrives to find Killian dead; he’s accused of murdering him, but soon everyone is attacked by a snake-like beast with a human face and Conan is cleared of suspicion. However, the snake-beast (a Son of Set) kills everyone but Conan. Conan kills the beast and looks in the empty bowl to learn Thoth-Amon was controlling the monster, who was intended to kill Karanthes. Conan wanders off.

NOTE:
Adapted from “The God in the Bowl”.

Surprisingly for a comic from the early ‘70s, there’s an entire pages with no dialogue, letting the art speak for itself. Well done!

The Son of Set here is Sschaaronn, named by Thoth-Amon in SAVSCO 191 when he tells the Man-Serpent Ssarbaarix that it was Conan who slew his brother, Sschaaronn, decades ago in Numalia.

Conan's appearance in Conan: Serpent War seems to follow on within no more than a few days from COB 7, as he's still being plagued by nightmares of Sschaaronn, and COB 7 is specifically referenced.