Issue Details

Issue	#7
Published	August 1975
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	1.00 USD
Pages	76
Editing	Roy Thomas; Marv Wolfman (consulting editor); Archie Goodwin (consulting editor)

Cover Details

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Pencils	Boris Vallejo (painting, signed)
Inks	Boris Vallejo (painting, signed)
Colors	Boris Vallejo (painting, signed)
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

1 page Conan illustration "untitled"

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Pencils	Vicente Alcazar (signed)
Inks	Vicente Alcazar (signed)
Notes	Inside front cover.

1 page text article "Table of Contents"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Table of contents and indicia.

1 page Conan text story "untitled"

Script	Robert E. Howard
Pencils	? (map)
Inks	? (map)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Excerpt from The Nemedian Chronicles and map of the Hyborian Age.
Reprinted	in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #250 (November 1991) [with minor modifications]

8 page Conan story "The Citadel at the Center of Time"

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	John Buscema
Inks	Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

7 page Conan story "Part Two: In the Shadow of Fear"

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	John Buscema
Inks	Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

11 page Conan story "Part Three: Sorcerer's Trove"

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	John Buscema
Inks	Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

18 page Conan story "Part IV: Into Time's Abyss"

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	John Buscema
Inks	Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #15 (July 1988)

4 page text article Crom and Mitra: Gods to Swear By - Part II of "The Gods of the Hyborian Age"

Characters	Conan (illustrations)
Script	Robert L. Yaple
Pencils	Mike Vosburg (illustration, signed); ? (illustrations)
Inks	Mike Vosburg (illustration, signed); ? (illustrations)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Includes full-page illustration of Conan by Vosburg and three small illustrations.

3 page text article "The King Is Dead - Part IV of Chronicles of the Sword: An Informal History of Sword-and-Sorcery Fiction"

Characters	Conan (illustration)
Script	Lin Carter
Pencils	Gray Morrow (illustration, signed); ? (illustration)
Inks	Gray Morrow (illustration, signed); ? (illustration)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Includes full-page illustration of Conan by Morrow and one small illustration.

1 page Conan text story "Lines Written In the Realization That I Must Die"

Characters	Conan (illustrations)
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Robert E. Howard
Pencils	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (illustrations)
Inks	Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (illustrations)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Copyright © 1946 by August Derleth for "Skullface and Others".
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #9 (January 1988)

6 page Conan story "The Hyborian Age - Chapter 1: The Pre-Cataclysmic Age"

Characters	Conan
Genre	sword and sorcery
Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	Walter Simonson [as Walt Simonson]
Inks	Walter Simonson [as Walt Simonson]
Letters	Walter Simonson
Notes	Adapted from the essay by Robert E. Howard. Letters credit from Walter Simonson via GCD Errors list, October 2009.
Reprinted	in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #50 (May 1991)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Tired of Dueling With the Neighborhood Bully for the Latest Issue of the Savage Sword of Conan?"

Pencils	Robert L. Kline (illustration, signed)
Inks	Robert L. Kline (illustration, signed)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Promotional advertisement for this series. Illustration © 1972 by Gary Groth and Bob Kline.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "untitled"

Characters	Conan (illustration)
Pencils	? (illustration)
Inks	? (illustration)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Promotional advertisement for the next issue and for the Savage Sword of Conan Special.

2 page letters page "Swords and Scrolls"

Characters	Conan (sketch)
Script	various
Pencils	John Buscema (sketch)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Includes layout sketch for the cover of The Savage Sword of Conan #5 (April 1975).