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Issue Details

Issue #229
Published January 1995
Cover Price $2.25
Pages 68
Editing Richard Ashford

Cover Details - "Featuring the Savage Blades of Red Sonja and Kull."

Genre Sword and Sorcery
Pencils Fred Harper
Inks Fred Harper

25 page Conan; Red Sonja. story "Assault on Acheron"

Characters Conan; Red Sonja; Xaltotun; Mahalat; Mynas.
Synopsis Time-tossed Conan and Red Sonja face the deadly sorcerer, Xaltotun in the city of Python, capital of Acheron.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Mike Docherty
Inks E R Cruz
Letters John Costanza
Notes Storyline continued from SSoC #226.

10 page Red Sonja story "A Lady for the Burning"

Characters Red Sonja
Synopsis Sonja encounters a city where they ritually burn a man's belongings upon his death, including his wife.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Howard Simpson
Inks Rober Quijano
Letters Janice Chiang
Notes This story occurs not long after the events of SSoC #207-210.

15 page Conan text article "Conan the Adventurer Program Guide (the Animated TV Show)"

Characters Conan
Synopsis Part 2 of a program guide to the animated tv series.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Pencils Ron Rudat; Ernie Chan
Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated with character designs by Ron Rudat, stills from the animated show, and illustrations by Ernie Chan.

10 page King Kull story "King Kull: Enslaved (Rotath - part 1)"

Characters King Kull; Sareeta (in flashback); Arthog; Captain Tokor.
Synopsis Young Kull the Atlantean, late of the Sea-Mountain tribe, swims away after killing a childhood friend to spare her being burned at the stake. He is captured by a Lemurian pirate ship and enslaved.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils E R Cruz
Inks E R Cruz
Letters Madonna Limcaco

1 page Conan text article "Roy's Ramblings (about Acheron)"

Synopsis A (sort of) history of Acheron.
Genre Sword and Sorcery
Script Roy Thomas

1 page illustration "Conan on a horse vs barbarians and monsters"

Pencils Alex Nino
Inks Alex Nino
Notes outside back cover