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Red Sonja; skull cover
Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Dick Giordano. The Rats Dance at Ravengard, script by Roy Thomas, pencils by John Buscema, inks by Dick Giordano and Dan Adkins; setting: Western border wastelands; Flashback story of 15 year old Conan achieving manhood; Conan is captured by Torkal Moh; adapted from the novel "Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse" by Gardner F. Fox. Red Sonja back-up story, Episode, script by Thomas, pencils by Buscema, inks by Giordano.


Artists Information

'The Michelangelo of comics.' Buscema was one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s heyday, best known for his run on the The Avengers and The Silver Surfer, and for over 200 stories featuring the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. In addition, he penciled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of the company's top books, Fantastic Four and Thor.

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.