Savage Sword of Conan 1975 #1 - reader copy - $10.00

Setting: Vanaheim, Conan battles at Vanaheim and sees his future. Tara returns to her dimension

• Startling 1st Issue! - Recolored.
• Mighty Marvel Action In A Giant Colour Special! - Advert on inside front cover for the Fantastic Four '100 pages and only 50p' Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #2.
• Enter - - The Hyborian Age - A personnal message from Stan Lee (done in the form of a scroll), introducing Conan and the new weekly, includes a photo of Stan and is signed "Stan". This text scroll is about 1/3-1/2 of the area of a splash page of Conan standing on some rocks with some mountains in the background. It looks like the Conan pose has been taken and retouched/redrawn from the cover of Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #2. A text line advert appears at the bottom of this page and a number of other pages throughout the issue "Stan Lee speaks at the ICA, The Mail, London. March 3rd. 7p.m. and 9p.m. Phone for tickets."
• Because You Demanded It! - Advert for #1 of the new "The Super-Heroes" weekly starring the Silver Surfer and the original X-Men. Has a large repro of the actual cover (with Silver Surfer on it) and a separate art panel featuring the 5 X-Men. Advert is on page 12 of the issue between the pages of the Conan story.
• Patch and Dr. Monster. - Comic strip advert for a mail offer of a Blobs Blowup (Patch or Monster) from Trebor's Blobs sweets. Send 4 wrappers and 9p in stamps.
• Mighty Marvel Triple Action On Sale Now - Advert for Marvel UK weeklies with the covers of Spider-Man Comics Weekly #108, Mighty World Of Marvel #127 and The Avengers #77. At the bottom quarter of page has a newsagent request slip for Savage Sword Of Conan with a chest up pose shot of Conan from this issue's cover.
• A King Comes Riding! - Pages 1-9 (minus panels 5 & 6 on page 9) only. The last two panels (which make up the last 1/3 of a page) have been replaced with a next issue blurb "Next Issue The Saga of Kull Continues-- To Kill A King".
• Don't Miss These Two Great Weeklies - Advert for Marvel UK weeklies Dracula Lives and Planet Of The Apes. Both have artwork poses merged with their title logos. Top half has Dracula and the bottom half various Apes (both taken from their #3 covers).
• FOOM - Advert for a UK subscription to FOOM describing what is included (a 22" x 28" poster, a membership card, a fistful of stick-ons, full year's subscription to FOOM magazine and a special surprise envelope that everything comes in). Join for 75p.
• Savage Sword of Conan - Free poster in this issue, that was folded into four. Only text on the artwork is the Savage Sword of Conan weekly logo and a copyright text line.