Description
CONAN e KA – ZAR
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1975
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“The Last Ballad of Laza-Lanti” / IL DEMONE DELLA VALLE BUIA
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
- Lord of Dark Valley (Death)
Other Characters:
- Laza-Lanti (Death)
- Timara (Death)
- Fezal (Death)
Locations:
- Shadizar
- the Wicked & Dark Valley
Synopsis
Conan, relaxing in a tavern in shadizar, listens to a haunting song
from the minstrel Laza-Lanti. A brawl inevitably breaks out, landing
Conan and Laza-Lanti in jail. The minstrel sings a tale of the Dark
Valley, where he was born, and how he fled the valley when he was a
child, on the run from a monster which was stalking him. Laza-Lanti has
vowed to return to the place of his birth to free it from the monster’s
power, and after the two escape using the minstrel’s hidden dagger,
Conan decides to accompany him. They make their way to the Dark Valley,
where they find a few men leaving behind cattle as a sacrifice. Soon,
they see a beautiful woman arrive to take the cattle into a cave beneath
some cliffside ruins. The woman offers the cattle to a slimy, tentacled
monster. Laza-Lanti impulsively attacks the creature, and Conan
assists, and they manage to kill the demon. When the minstrel expects
gratitude from the woman, Timara, she explains that she served the demon
willingly, for it kept her young, and she had bore it two two sos. One
son was given to druids to raise; the other is Laza-Lanti himself. The
spells keeping her young gone, she swiftly ages and falls on her own
dagger. Conan leaves the devastated men, who commits suicide while Conan
ponders what happened to the other son.
Notes
- Inks are credited only to the Crusty Bunkers.
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“Demons Dwell in the Crypts of Yamath!” NELLE CRIPTE DI.. YAMATH ! (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
- Thongor
Villains:
- Yellow Druid Vaspas Ptol
Other Characters:
- Sharajsha of Zaar (wizard)
Locations:
- Lemuria
- Patanga
Items:
- Sarkozan
- Starsword
Synopsis
The high priest prepared to make Thongor pay with his
life for violating the crypts, when suddenly he and his guardsmen fled in
superstitious terror, leaving their captive to the tender mercies of a
blasphemous horror crawling up out of the dark. Thongor slashed at it, but it
proved to be an illusion cast by Sharajsha. Thongor bought the wizard the time
he needed and was presented with the newly forged Starsword, only for both wizard
and warrior to collapse from mysterious narcotic fumes moments later.
Villains:
- Phondar of Verulia (Death)
- Dondal (Death)
Other Characters:
- Brule
- Nalissa
- Tu
- Count Murom
- Dalgar of Farsun
- Ka-Nu
- King Borna (Flashback)
- Baron Kaanuub (Flashback)
Locations:
Synopsis
by a masked man, whose identity makes the treachery all the more bitter.
Notes
Adapted from Robert E. Howard’s “Swords of the Purple Kingdom”.
In the Kull mythos, this story follows “Delcardes’ Cat”.
It begins with Delcardes, once again, begging Kull to allow her to
marry her sweetheart, against her father’s wishes. However, given that
Kull already granted her wish in issue 7, Delcardes is replaced here
with ‘Nalissa’, another woman in the same predicament..
