Item Biography
"The Lurker Within!"
Conan travels to the city of Numalia in Nemedia, and finds employ with an ambitious royal, Lady Aztrias. She needs his skills as a thief to fix her gambling debts, and knows that a Stygian has sent a priceless relic as gift to Karanthes, a priest of Ibis, that it sits in the local merchant Kallian's warehouse. Conan breaks in to steal the gift, an enormous bowl, but finds Kallian there dead, the bowl empty. The guards come upon him and hold him for murder, and Lady Aztrias betrays him further. But the real murderer is still loose, and Stygian wizard Thoth-Amon watches from afar.
- Story adapted by Roy Thomas from Robert E. Howard's "The God In the Bowl", penciled by Barry Smith, inked by Sal Buscema and Dan Adkins, and lettered by Sam Rosen.
- Reprinted from Conan the Barbarian (1970) #7