Conan the Barbarian #42 (1974) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Night of the Gargoyle!	cover	1	pencils: Gil Kane; inks: Ernie Chan; letters: Danny Crespi	Conan; Tavashtri the Gargoyle
1	Night of the Gargoyle!	comic story	18	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: John Buscema; inks: Ernie Chua; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: John Costanza	Conan; Arlinna; Tavashtri the Gargoyle
2	-	in-house column	0.83	script: Stan Lee
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.17
4	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: John Buscema, Sal Buscema; inks: Ernie Chan, Vince Colletta

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.07 GBP

Collection	Year
Conan Saga #78	1993	On eBay ›
The Curse of the Golden Skull and Other Stories	2004	On eBay ›
Comic Reader #107	1974	On eBay ›

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