Conan the Barbarian 1970 #20 Regular Edition - back issue - $9.00

Conan and Fafnir serve aboard a ship from Turan, just outside the city of Makkalet. Conan infiltrates the Temple of Tarim in order to kidnap the living god Tarim, but he fails, kills a black hound and flees. Fafnir has lost his arm in battle and is thrown overboard by Balthaz to drown because is already as good as dead. Angry, Conan kills Balthaz and flees Yezdigerd's ship.

On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #87 July 1972.

• The Black Hound of Vengeance! - Coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005]
• The Black Hound of Vengeance! - Coloring credits acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Ragnarok #3 [Dec. 1973/Jan. 1974], p. 42 and Spectrum Super Special #3 [2005]. Windsor-Smith letters credit is by Roy Thomas (2018, 109). _________ Reference: Thomas, Roy. 2018. Barbarian Life: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian, Volume One. N.p.: Pulp Hero Press.
• Gangway, World! Madcap Marvel Marches Merrily On! - Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist; house ad for The Cat series.
• - No letters this issue; announcement about Conan wining a Shazam award; includes a map of the Hyborian world based on one by Robert E. Howard (originally from Conan #16) with the besieged city of Makkat added.