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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6673876" data-attributes="member: 92305">--  CONAN'S EARLY MARVEL TRAVELS  --Look up thread a bit, and you'll find a map detailing Conan's voyages with Belit aboard the Tigress on the Great Western Ocean, as depicted in the early Marvel comics.  Here, below, you will find a similar map to Conan's early adventures, staring with issue #1, through two years of the series, to issue #24.Some consider the Marvel adventures to play out in, more or less, real time.  For example, when Conan begins his adventures with Belit in issue #58, she becomes a companion for 30+ issues (3 years of real time, with the book coming out once a month).  Most Conan fans agree that Conan sailed with Belit for about that length of time--two to three years, which takes place between Chapter One and Chapter Two of Howard's story, <a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600961h.html" target="_blank">Queen of the Black Coast</a>.Using that logic, the path that Conan took on the map below took him about two years to travel.<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wha9CRhXrY8/Vb6s4Rgk6oI/AAAAAAAALeo/bi3a0KlVuqI/w1338-h871-no/Marvel%2BTreasury%2BEdition%2B%2B-%2BConan%2B%25234%2B-%2BPage%2B38.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />1.  The starting point for Marvel's series, in issue #1, where Conan is first encountered battling in a valley of Vanaheim.2.  In snowy Asgard, in the lair of the Beastmen.3.  Conan escapes the Beastmen, fleeing through Hyperborea, where, at the border, he encounters men at war, and the Grim Grey God!4.  The Tower of the Elephant!  In Zamora's City of Thieves.5.  A small, nameless village on the road to Shadizar, haunted by witch.  Seven drakis will buy a nice sword.6.  Shadizar!7.  The connection between #6 and #7 on the map is the Road of Kings!  Point #7 is Numalia, where the events of The God In The Bowl take place.8.  Conan finds a dead city.  The tale is extrapolated from one of Howard's unfinished Conan stories.9.  This area of Corintha seems to be sparsely settled, savage, and full of lost places, people, and creatures, given Conan's recent adventures.  At point #9, Conan encounters a man from a long, forgotten, winged race, living in a tower or emerald.10 - 11.  A Corinthian City-State, where Rogues In The House takes place.12.  Zahmahn, a City-State of Corinthia, where Conan becomes the boy-toy of Queen Fatima.13.  Yezud, the City of the Spider God.14.  The Tower of Zukala, in the wilderness of northern Koth.  Conan encounters Elric of Melnibone!15.  The Lost City of Yagala, displaced from Elric's realm.  Sorcery be here!16.  This is missing as issue #16 was a reprint.17 - 18.  The Vilayet Sea.  Conan encounters a version of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, though, here, they are called Fafnir and Blackrat.  Fafnir is a red-haired Vanirman.  Bal-Sagoth is an island, deep in the Vilayet, populated by an ancient people.19. - 24.  The walled Hykanian city-state of Makkalet.  Thus begins one of my favorite Marvel story-lines:  The War of Tarim.  In this multi-issue story, you will learn much of Tarim, the god of these parts, and of Prince Yezdigerd, son of King Yildz and future King of Turan.  The battle of Makkalet is AMAZING!  21.  Pah-Dishah.  A Hyrkanian city-state.   It is here that Conan first meets Red Sonja!</blockquote>

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