| Starring in the first issue were Robert E.
Howard's sword and sorcery pulp-fiction character Conan the Barbarian,
adapted by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith (as Barry
Smith); the futuristic, Amazon-like Femizons, by writer-editor Stan Lee
and artist John Romita; the swamp creature Man-Thing, plotted by Lee and
Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and drawn by Gray Morrow; the
African-American inner-city defender Joshua, in the feature "Black
Brother" by Dennis O'Neil (under the pseudonym Sergius O'Shaughnessy) and
penciler Gene Colan; and, after Conan had been spun off into his own
Savage Sword of Conan, the jungle lord Ka-Zar, by Lee and artist John
Buscema. |
