Conan the Barbarian 1970 #2 - 7.5 - $85.00

• Early app: Conan the Barbarian (2nd appearance)

Conan leads humans in a revolution against their ape-masters. Conan kills a snow-lion.

On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.

• In the Cavern Waits --- Doom! - Roy Thomas speculates on page one of the text article, "Of Bears and Beast-Men" in Conan Classic (Marvel, 1994 series) #2 (July 1994) that Herb Trimpe possibly altered Conan's torso on the cover of Conan the Barbarian #2 "at the direction of Stan [Lee] or [Martin] Goodman".
• Lair of the Beast-Men! - The coloring credits were acknowledged by Barry Windsor-Smith in Spectrum Super Special #3 (2005). Conan is in chains for the first time. Story page count is 20 (numbered) in book, but since pages 12 and 13 are half-pages (shared with adverts), the total comes to 19 pages in this index. In reprints the two halfs are normally joined back into one.
• A Pride of Pronouncements for a Frenzy of Fans! - Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items; house ad for Sub-Mariner Annual #1 and Avengers Annual #4.
• - All-star set of letters from Harlan Ellison (noted Science Fiction... sorry, Speculative Fiction author), Glenn Lord (Robert E. Howard scholar), Maggie Thompson (noted comic scholar), Don Thompson (noted comic scholar), Dick Lupoff (noted comic scholar and author), August Derleth (author), Ted White (noted comic scholar and author); includes Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.
• The Hyborian Age Of Conan - Circa 10,000 BC - - Based on a map prepared by Robert E. Howard.