Conan the Barbarian 1970 #18 Regular Edition - reader copy - $5.00

Setting: Island city of Bal-Sagoth in Vilayet Sea. Conan & Fafnir slay demons and flee from Bal-Sagoth as a volcano destroys the island. They are picked up in the Sea by Yezdigerd.

On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #85 May 1972.

• The Thing in the Temple! - Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006). Roy Thomas corroborates a Romita contribution to this cover (2018, 104). \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Reference: Thomas, Roy. 2018. *Barbarian Life: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian, Volume One. *N.p.: Pulp Hero Press.
• These 3 Big Drafting Kits Given To You! - Interior front cover.
• The Thing in the Temple! - Part two of an adaptation of The Gods of Bal-Sagoth by Robert E. Howard.
• The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac - Artist identification from chatgpt.com "The artist behind the famous Charles Atlas "Mac" advertisements, where a bully kicks sand in the face of a weaker man, was Joe Musial. Musial was a cartoonist for the advertising agency that handled the Charles Atlas campaign. These ads, often titled "The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac", were created in the 1940s and became one of the most iconic fitness advertisements of all time. They depicted a scrawny young man getting humiliated at the beach, only to later bulk up using Charles Atlas?s Dynamic Tension program and return to get revenge."
• Super-Special Announcement! - Stan Lee's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
• Super Speed Karate - Mail order coupon for The Super Karate Book and/or the Giant Life-Size Karate Practice Dummy.
• Shop by Mail - Novelty advertisements.
• - Letters from Chung Wong, Juan Cole, and Ted White (editor of Amazing and Fantastic); includes Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.
• Dig These! - Advertisement for Snap Tite model shovel, bulldozer, mover, and skipshovel.
• 3 Complete Fishing Outfits - Interior back cover.
• Class A Racing - Back cover.