Descrizione
CONAN e KA – ZAR
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1975
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
“The Dragon from the Inland Sea!” / IL DRAGO DEL MARE NASCOSTO
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
- Ghul-Azalel (Death)
Other Characters:
- Ben-Hussa
- Rachalla
Locations:
- Keshaan
Synopsis
Conan is waylaid by a group of bandits, and though he kills them all,
his horse breaks its leg and Conan is bitten by a viper. He collapses
but is rescued by a young woman and her uncle, who happens to be the
lord of the small village Keshaan, and had been run out by the mad
priest Ghul-Azalel. Ghul-Azalel had convinced Ben-Hussal to begin
sacrificing virgins to a sea dragon to end a curse of death that had
infected the town over the past year. When the sacrifices were
unsuccesful and when Ghul-Azalel demanded the sacrifice of Ben-Hussal’s
niece Rachalla, the two fled the town leaving it to Ghul-Azalel.
However, they have had word that the priest had died and it was safe to
return. The two ask for Conan’s assistance in returning, and Conan
agrees, only to find themselves captured when they enter the village; it
was a trap. The two men are tied to stakes and Rachalla is chained to a
rock in the sea as sacrifice for the sea dragon. Conan rips his stake
from the ground, slips from the ropes, and makes his way to Rachalla as a
giant crocodile emerges from the ocean.Conan stabs it and lures it to
the shore and towards Ghul-Azalel. The creature devours the priest and,
sated, returns to the sea, ending the curse. Rachalla reveals the reason
Ghul-Azalel was mad and why Ben-Hussal fled rather than confront him –
the mad priest was Ben-Hussal’s brother, Rachalla’s father.
“Waters of Darkness, River of Doom!” / ACQUE DELL’ OSCURITA’ , FIUME DEL DESTINO !
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Behemoth (tylosaurus, killed by Ka-Zar) (Death)
Other Characters:
- pterodactyls
- Savage Land tribe
- Kem Horkus
- Bar Horkus (leader, Kem’s brother, killed by the Behemoth) (Death)
- Ghakar (aspiring leader)
- Sar Derkin
Locations:
- Savage Land
- Tabarr River (also called by the tribe members the “Dark Water”)
Synopsis
Ka-Zar rescues a young boy named Kem Horkus from pteordactyls and
take him back to the hunting party led by his brother. Bar Horkus has
spent 20 years pursuing a Tylosaurus they call The Behemoth that took
his eye and arm in their first encounter. Bar’s mad obsession has been
gradually wearing on his men, but Ka-Zar agrees to help his quest for
Kem’s sake. The next day, the hunters set out on the river in two rafts,
each equipped with a large ballista. When they find The Behemoth, Bar
Horkus’ bolt only wounds his prey, and Ghakar’s raft turns away before
the other ballista can fire. Refusing to retreat, Bar Horkus leads the
rest of his men to their deaths against the angered Behemoth. Ka-Zar
only manages to save Kem before finally killing The Behemoth himself,
exacting the revenge Bar sought not as a personal vendetta, but as his
duty to the law of the jungle. Afterwards, Ka-Zar’s only consolation to
Kem is the promise to find Ghakar for betraying his brother.
Notes
- The plot is loosely based on Moby Dick.
“Where Broods the Demon!” / SPADA CONTRO MAGIA ! (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
- Thongor
Villains:
- Demon of Zangabal (Death)
- Athmar Phong
Other Characters:
- Ald Thurmis
- Aqquoonkagua
Locations:
- Zangabal
Items:
- Shield of Cathloda (Destroyed)
- Mirror of Zaffar (Destroyed)
- Sword of Thum-ithar
Synopsis
full of twisted, half-formed creatures created by Athmar Phong. Entering the
wizard’s throne room, Thongor and Ald were confronted by the Demon of Zangabal
once more. The demon handily made a mockery of the two warriors until Thongor
found the Shield of Cathloda and, bolstered by its power, delivered a killing
blow. Just as the demon was defeated, Athmar Phong mystically appeared, returned
from the midnight revelry of his unholy order. Reading Thongor’s mind, he saw
the barbaric youth was to steal the Mirror of Zaffar, just like Ald of weeks
ago. Freezing the two in place with a ray that would slowly transform them into
stone, Phong held all the cards…until he decided to gloat. He showed the two
warriors the Mirror of Zaffar, in which Aqquoonkagua the Prince of Hell was
bound, hidden in plain sight all along beneath a dark cloth. Thongor, protected
by the Shield of Cathloda, unerringly threw the talisman at the mirror,
shattering it and releasing Aqquoonkagua. The demon lord crushed Athmar Phong in
his talons even as the wizard begged for Thongor’s help, which was of course
denied. Smashing through the roof of the wizard’s mansion, Aqquoonkagua soared
off into the heavens, “I return to the ultracosmos and let him beware, who would
call me back again!” As the sun rose, Thongor and Ald Thurmis parted ways after
filching a few of the precious baubles laying about the deserted abode of the
dead wizard. Thongor left Zangabal, feeling some force calling him, pulling him onward.
Athmar Phong was a corpulent wizard capable of
teleportation (or assuming gaseous form, it’s hard to say), reading thoughts,
summoning and commanding the Demon of Zangabal, and slowly trasforming people to
stone for his amusement. He attracted the ire and the jealousy of the priest
Kaman Thuu due to is possession of the Mirror of Zaffar. Thongor managed to
break the mirror with a magic amulet and the enraged demon within the mirror
escaped to have its revenge on Athmar Phong, crushing him into nothingness.
Aqquoonkagua was a gigantic skull-faced, red
demon, wreathed in fire. Appropriate enough for a Prince of Hell. According to
him he had only been a prisoner in the Mirror of Zaffar ‘long decades’ but even
such a tiny ammount of time imprisoned by the sorcerer Athmar Phong was enough
to enrage him beyond all measure. After Thongor destroyed the mirror he swiftly
closed his titanic claw about Phong, crushing him. When he opened his taloned
fist, Phong’s charred body fell to the ground. I’d imagine Aqquoonkagua just
sent Phong on the express elevator to hell for further prolonged torture rather
than instantly destroying him in a fit of rage. That done the demon soared off
into the heavens to return to the ‘ultracosmos’.
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