In a world where ancient wizards don’t stay dead…

In a valley where gold fuels madness…

One barbarian will face a curse older than the Hyborian Age itself.

In this episode of Hither Came Conan, Steeven unleashes the full, unstoppable fury of Conan the Barbarian #37: The Curse of the Golden Skull—a tale where a long-dead sorcerer rises in shimmering golden flesh, a kidnapped princess faces a fate worse than marriage, and a giant, ravenous slug slithers out of the abyss to devour anything dipped in glitter.

Captured by hillmen. Chained in the mines. Hunted through darkness by monsters too big to draw comfortably on a monthly deadline. Conan and Juma must outfight, outrun, and outwit Rotath—the golden tyrant of the Valley of the Sun—before they become the next sacrifices to the Devil of the Pits.

Epic wizardry. Impossible escapes. Gold theft on a heroic scale. And a slug that could give your nightmares nightmares.

This is the adventure Neal Adams penciled like lightning and Roy Thomas stitched together from the brink of disaster.

This is blood, sweat, chains, and molten sorcery.

This is Episode 59.

And Hyboria will never shine the same way again.

Conan the Barbarian #37: The Curse of the Golden Skull was published by Marvel Comics in January of 1974.

Enjoy!

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Conan returns to Agraphur and is immediately promoted to the King’s personal guard.

But when a stone statue comes to life, threatening the King’s very existence, will our brawny barbarian prove to be the best fit for his new position?

Hold on to your butts, folks because Steeven's leaping head first into Conan the Barbarian #36: Beware the Hyrkanians Bearing Gifts.

While this episode isn't a part of your balanced breakfast, it does cram together palace intrigue, sweaty training montages, illicit pillow-talk, and full-on monster mayhem into one glorious, blood-slick hour and twenty-eight minutes.

Conan goes from mud-caked barbarian to the King’s questionable new bodyguard. He's learning bows and horses and the deadly art of the axe while stealing a few stolen kisses from the dangerously voluptuous Amytis.

It's a pretty sweet setup for our boy, Conan. That is until the aforementioned stone statue comes to life and starts killing people and stuff.

Conan the Barbarian #36: Beware the Hyrkanians Bearing Gifts was published by Marvel Comics in December, 1973.

Enjoy!

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Got questions or comments? Drop us a line at feedback@hithercameconan.com.

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Get your mind ready for action as we pry open the tomb doors of Kara-Shehr and watch greed wake something that never wanted to be disturbed — a misty, fanged horror, an impossible sapphire called the Azure Eye, and the terrible price paid by a friend who reaches for it.

We got all that and more as Steeven dives into Conan the Barbarian #35: The Hell-Spawn of Kara-Shehr.

Expect blow-by-blow mayhem: camel raids in dawn heat, a desperate rescue in the dunes, a sandstorm that dumps our heroes before the ruined throne room, and that spine-cold moment when the skeleton’s hand closes around the jewel. Re-live the panic as an old foe returns, the room fills with living mist, and Conan charges headlong into certain death in hopes to save a friend.

But also expect the unexpected because this is a story that refuses a neat ending.

So join Steeven as he celebrates Buscema’s masterful storytelling and Glynis’s color work, riffs on Gil Kane covers and Roy Thomas’s liner notes, and leans into how sometimes the barbarian loses — and why that makes the stories hit harder. If you love Conan at his most brutal and bittersweet, tune in for an emotional ride across dunes where treasure isn’t worth the cost, and maybe don’t touch the pretty blue rock.

This issue was published by Marvel Comics in October of 1973.

Enjoy!

Hither Came Conan is a production of Steeven Orr Else Media. For more nerdy goodness from me, visit somanypodcasts.com.

Got questions or comments? Drop us a line at feedback@hithercameconan.com.

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