Appearing in "The Garden of Fear"
Conan the Barbarian #9
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Jenna
- Mountain People (First appearance)
- Hialmar (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- "Garakaa"/"Winged One" ("Black-winged devil") (First appearance; dies)
- Unnamed species of flowers (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Crom (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Unnamed "legend-birthing race" (First appearance)
- Condors (Mentioned)
- Long-Snouts (First appearance)
- "Great tuskers"/"Hairy tuskers" (Unidentified species of Elephant-like behemoths, possibly Mammoths) (First appearance)
- Elephants (Mentioned)
- Unidentified species of fish
- Unnamed species of flowers (First appearance)
- Gods (Invoked)
Locations:
- Earth
- Hell (Invoked)
- Crom's mountain (Referenced)
Items:
Events:
Synopsis for "The Garden of Fear"
Conan the Barbarian #9
Conan and Jenna, while riding through a mountain range, are attacked by savage hill men. They manage to grab Jenna, and Conan responds violently. The battle is halted by the appearance of the savages' chief, whom Conan decides to trust to the point of even joining the savages in their frenzied dances. The next morning, Conan and Jenna prepare to leave, but the girl is snatched by a winged creature (reminiscent of the giant bat that grabbed her in #6) and taken beyond the cliffs; Conan gives chase. The valleys Conan enters contains all number of exotic animals and greenery, and he finally reaches a lighthouse-like tower in the second valley. An ebony, winged man steps out and tosses a man into the odd-looking flowers below. The flowers promptly kill and suck the blood out of the man, much to Conan's horror. The creature, noting Conan, goes inside but returns a moment later and dangles Jenna above the man-eating plants. With no way to reach the tower, Conan returns to the animals in the first valley and lights a fire to herd a group of mastodons toward the tower. The beasts trample the field of flowers, and Conan climbs the tower walls. He fights the creature to the death and, uninterested in the mysteries of the tower and its owner, leads Jenna out of the Valley.
Appearing in "Beware the Wrath of Anu!"
Conan the Barbarian #10
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Corinthian guards (First appearance)
- Captain Aron (First appearance)
- Archers/bowmen
- Nabonidus the Red Priest (First appearance)
- Bull of Anu / Bull of Heaven (First appearance)
- Unnamed priest of Anu (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Mitra (Invoked)
- Anu (Mentioned)
- King of the city (Mentioned)
- Crom (Invoked)
- Gorda (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Hyboria
- Unknown Corinthian city-state (First appearance)
- Temple of Anu (First appearance)
- Official residence of the Red Priest (First appearance)
- Residence of the Red Priest (Mentioned)
- Palace (Mentioned)
- Prison (Mentioned)
- Gallows-square / "Thieves' end" (Only appearance; destruction)
- Zamora (Mentioned)
- Cimmeria (Mentioned)
- Lanjau (Mentioned)
- Unknown Corinthian city-state (First appearance)
- Heavens (Invoked)
Items:
- Silver Spiral (First appearance)
- Golden skulls (First appearance)
- Dagger-belt (First appearance)
- Priest of Anu's amulet (First appearance)
Vehicles:
Events:
Synopsis for "Beware the Wrath of Anu!"
Conan the Barbarian #10
Conan and Jenna reach a Corinthian city-state, but run into some trouble trying to enter. The guards are distracted by a patrol chasing a pair of thieves, and when Conan gets in the way of their arrows, they turn their wrath on him. He is saved in turn by the thieves, as they help him escape onto the roofs, unfortunately leaving Jenna behind, though they first tell her to meet them at the Temple of Amu. It turns out one of the thieves is Burgun, whom Conan briefly allied with in the lost city Lanjau. Burgun, Conan and the third man, Igon, visit the temple of Anu, the priest of which acts as her fence on a regular basis. Conan reunites with Jenna, and decides to help Burgun on his thieving runs, always staying one step ahead of Captain Aron. Finally, the duo targets the secret ruler of the city, the Red Priest Nabonidus. Meanwhile, Captain Aron traces the thieves back to the Temple of Anu, threatening and bribing the priest to help him set a trap and Burgun is captured. Igon, more interested in Jenna, doesn't seem to care that his partner is imprisoned and refuses to help Conan break him out. Burgun is hanged, but Conan notes Aron meeting with the priest in the window of the Temple of Anu. Angered beyond belief, Conan confronts the priest, who summons Anu himself - a red humanoid bull-god. The priest is protected from Anu's rage by as amulet, but loses that protection when Conan snatches the amulet from around the priest's neck. Anu goes on a rampage, growing larger and larger until it takes the priest in hand and crushes him. His blooth thirst stilled, Anu turns wraith-like, grows hundreds of feet tall and vanishes back into the heavens. The priest, near death, is helped along by a blow from Conan's sword. Conan returns to the gallows, slits the throat of the guard, cuts down his friend's body, burns the scaffold to the ground, and buries Burgun outside the town.