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| TRANGE
Brora THE shi
* The Giant From Beyoird
'=_WEAPON OF TIME
iy nee
THE LEOPARD MEN |
For HUNDRED OF YEARS THE LEO
ARO MEN, MEMBERS OF AN EVIL.
ARRIGAN CULT, HAVE STALKED THOM
TUNGLE 19 MURDER IN SACRIFI~
CIAL RITES. ALTHOUGH BRITISH.
BNO FRENGH COLONIAL RULERS
HAVE TAKEN EXTRAOROINARY
Measunes To STAMP OUT ITS
HORRIBLE PRACTICES, THEY OCCUR
‘Yo THis OY
Because oF
Gf promises By
2 THEIR WITCH Doc:
Necaal TORS AN
DRESSED IN THE SKIN OF A LEOPARD ANO THEY RECEIVE GREAT.
Tims DEAD THE
EARTH AROUND
SHE Sor WHERE
HE LIES 1S TAMPED
IMITATION LEoP-
Wake 1 Look Y, \ "A HUNTING DOWN OF THE MURDEROUS.
Beir a Loran | Guctists. iN 1904 WAS “THOUGHT TO)
¢ f HAVE WIPED THEM OUT, BUT IT WAS
aoe NOT SUSCESSFUL. LEOPARD HEN RAL
ood! a i TO THIS VERY DAY. game
THOUSANDS OF CENTURIES BEFORE THE
FIRST RECORDED HISTORY OF MANKIND,THERE
WERE STRANGE KINGDOMS AND EVEN STRANGER
PEOPLES UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTHITALES|
OF GIANTS THAT HAVE COME DOWN TOUS, --=
THROUGH THE Misty ACES, GOBACK TO THE TIME|
OF EARTH'S DAWN, WHEN A/MONSTER NAMED
BALTHAR CAME UP OUT OF THE JUNGLE LaNDS,|
LEADING His PAGAN FOLLOWERS TO PILLAGE
AND GONQUEST!
‘AND THERE,IN WHAT IS NOW THE NILE
VALLEY, CROM THE BARBARIAN, FOUGHT HIS
GREATEST FIGHT AGAINST...
THE GIANT
FROM BEYOND|
[EVEN IN THOSE OAYS,NO MAN KNEW WHERE
BALTHAR THE TERRIBLE WAS BORN! HE
EMERGED FIRST IN THE CLIFF COUNTRY, SOUTH
[//SALTHAR NOT SEE PERSON LIKE WER YOU SEEF BALTHAR GAN TEAR | [ IN TERROR,
BEFORE‘ VERY LITTLE’ WHERE BALTHA UP TREE! BALTHAR MIGHTIEST] | THE AWED
Coue evenveooy olor eaLthan/| | thine in woRCD: You PORE Or
NO..PLEASE? =, CREPT TOTHE
bana — x : FEETOR THE
60 AWAY. GO" 4 g Mighty GIANT
INTHE PAGAN
EYES, HEWAS
‘A GoD
WITH YOUTO LEAD US, WE
LEAD US! LEAD ust WILL BECOME GREATY‘suT | |GREAT PLAIN COUNTAY.LAY.
YOU ARE OUR We must co nontH,waere |) THE RicH city OPHIR/AULED.
CHIEF, OUR
RULERT TRADE CARAVANS MOVE IN.
DESERT AND JUNGLE’ WE WiLL
RAID THEM, CAPTURI
SILKS AND GOLD.
ote /roon? t
Ano Wan vEweLss/£0007 1
TW THE THRONE ROOM, POETRY? GOD OF INO? FUL
‘GROM BROODED WITH. GO MAD LISTENING TO THIS
SULLEN FURY HEY Fool PRATE AND MEW HIS
FELT GHAINED TO THIS ‘WORDS! GODS, weiAT T WOULDN'T]
HUGE GOLDEN THRONE, GIVE FOR ONE Good swORD-
FELT GHAINED' TO. FIGHT RIGHT NOW? THIS
‘QUEENLY TANIT. His. IS'NO LIFE FOR ME?
HAND NisSeD THE GRID}
OF His LONGSWORD.. J
fis'b0 by GREW SOFT
WITH EASY LIVING £
‘SUDDENLY, STAGGERING INTO THE THRONE: TES BADLY WOUNDED! \TAKE HIM TO YOUR
ROOM CAME’ A MAN, HALF-DEAD WITH _| | ExiausTeD? He Must \ROONS.cROM! E WiLL
ete Have COME a HUNDRED JOON AND LISTEN TO,
TE Hives To gRINGUS nie TALE TIE WE.
RAGKEO AND LooTED.-AclaNT Ene Wonk FoR’) To stawe Our THIS.
OF AMAN.. & HUNDRED TALL. f. cannweLt 001?
‘BS GROW LISTENS TOTHE STORY OF THE WOUNDED) (‘HO,LITTLE ONES?
WARRIOR, HE SEES THE SCENE IN HIS MINDS Eve!) | TASTE OF SALTHAR
1 THis Ss WHAT MY PEOPLE
WANT,T WILL GeT IT FOR er
fy STRENGTHS
THE CARAVAN APPROACHES!
GOODE THE CLOSER IT COMES,
THE FEWER WILL ESCAPE.
FROM MY CLUB f
INE MAN, WOUNDED AND IN
PAIN, CRAWLED WEAKLY FROM
THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION. WARN US OF THs
GOD OF IND.. PERHAPS GIANT! BY THORS HAM:
TGAN FIND A HORSE MER, IT WILL BE GooD
SOMEWHERE. RIDE TO RIDE THE swonD-
NORTH TO OPHIR. PATH ONCE AGAIN:
WARN TANI’ AND ROM:
[AUC THAT WIGHT, BY THE UGhT OF FLAMING
BE CAREFUL.
[TORGHES, cROM WADE HIS PLANS.
TAYE, TANITY BUT WY
To the Peorce ortneoawn | [ry 1 WATERS OF THE
pays or carta wanwas a | |nekus Took THe WOODEN
CONSTANT GAME, AND FARE ~
BOATS OF OPHIR AND SENT
SHew SOUTHWARD SWIFTLY.
WELL GO BY THE
WELLS ETERNAL,
BRINGME
AoiaNT's
NTO THE
RIVERISWiM?
Swim
YOUR LIVES!
MUCH AS SCRATCH
HPs ARMOR!
[ THE MIGHTY JaWS GAPED WIDE? WITH A SNARLING| [TT KILLED wy
Hiss. THE MONSTER GFT THROUGH MEN AND BoaT.| | OLD COMRADE
GROMT HE WILL
KILL IT ) KNOW WHAy TO
BEFORE ( ‘DOP HISs SwoRD
Treats |WIU EAT THROUGH|
THOSE SCALES!
KLE
[OH MOTHER
‘OF AESIR.
AGAIN, THE SERPENT HEAD FLASHED BOWN-
THE JAWS BIT DEEP.
‘CRON COMES HE WAS
INTHE LAST BOAT,
BUT HE COMES,
Now!
WITH WATER GLISTENINGFROM] [HOLD THEM STEADY? [SWORD AND FANG MET WITH A
UNEQUAL FIGHT. SKULL-BITER TO BEAR HO FOUL DWELLER
Tervounsnmic aaa) [setaaeevaeeiey | |gactidlsa eins
OPHIR! MAKE A FLOOR FOR Lan eee SLIMY BED! DRINK,
Withee | Get THE
IATTRAGTED BY THE BLOOD
oF BaTTLe. cove OTHER
'SH- HUNGRY CREATURES.
For A WHILE, THE SOLDIERS OROVE BACK THE
CAVE PEOPLE’, AND THEN, TOWERING OVER THEM
Meawnniice, 10 Te SOUTH, THe cave PEOPLE
Raioee aNDUoreD The TRADE CARAVAN OF
Might OPuIRe AUS cane BACTHAR’
KILL THEM ALLT
Tey can overcome Y ophitels yeaa Re'| | ‘ncamsr satrnar?euT
cS ee eHoer ake | | See wnat BALTHAR'S,
Beaman ye \ Ne wismiesy we | | Skewmar Sa Tiare
Saale cwobsine” JLo
Peo ot )
Pik! THE WORLD!
[FROM THEIR BOATS, CROM AND
WIS LITTLE ARIAY MOVED INLAND,
BY CUTTING THROUGH THE JUN:
/SLE.WE WILL CONE UPON THIS
TAM THE GREATEST THING] | AHH, SOOO" WHEN BaLTHaR
Fahad ee Sheatane Wo" | [ aie seen Aran aN CAs as
ew can Stawo aeaiver 4 | Beopce notraro cowaues
YOUARE "| [Suan mis erase or
nD OnEeS: ‘SO MUCH THE BETTER!
"AND THEN ONE DAY WITH THE JUNGLE BEHIND,
[BUT HUGE GORILLAS, FIERCE LORDS OF THE DEEP |
ESTJUNGLE,FOUSHT THE INVADERS AT EVERY STEP) | THEM. NY We've FOUND THEN,TARA ‘GO GAGK
KILL SWIFTLY, MEN OF OPHIR? TOOK A ANO BRING UP THE TROOPS, WHILE
YONDER!) "GOON AHEAD TO SCOUT OUT THE
THESE CREATURES ARE STRON:
THE GAVE oes WAY OF FIGHTING THEM!
BUT OUR SWORDS AND AXES
‘ARE TOO MUCH FOR THEM? Ag | Peore's
TF THERE IS SUCH A
THING AS A GIANT, =
‘SEE NO SIGN
OF HIM f
AND THEN, MOVING THROUGH
Hite TREES BORDERING THE
PLAINS, CAME THE GIANT FIGURE)
loreactaaR. =
1S8{ THERE /SAGIANT..TALLER
THAN THE TREES NO WONDER
NO MERE MAN CAN 00 ANY.
THING AGAINST HIM.
IF WY ARMY SECS THAT MON
lSreR,THey'LL STAMPEDE WITH
FRIGHT? T MUST ORDER aN
JATTACK AT ONGE ON THE Cave
PEOPLE... AND HOPE THAT A
CUekY win KEEPS THAT RUGE|
CREATURE FAR AWAY. +
AS THEY RAN, THE ARCHERS HALTED EVERY.
HIGHINTO THE AIR, TOWARD THE GAVE PEOPLE,
ROM ORDERED HIS ARCHERS FORWARD AT A TROT]
SEVENTH STEP AND OROVE THEIR SLIM ARROWS
BEHIND THE CRUDE STONE WALLS, THE CAVE
PEOPLE FEEL LIKE STALKS BEFORE THE HAIL
OF WAR ARROWS f
THEY HAVE NO BOWMEN') HAVE FEATHERED
WORTHY OF THE NAME) iy SHAFTS IN MANY
Tals WILL-BE A OF THE FOOLS
SLAUGHTER. ~~ “ALREADY!
‘ONLY BALTHAR
GAN SAVE US! THOSE
VETERANS oF
OPRIR'S ARMY!
WHEREIS
BALTHAR?
THIS 15 THE SIGNAL THAT WE ARE
IN TROUBLE? IF BALTHAR SEES IT, HE
WILL COME IN TIME TO SAVE US.
IFHE DOES NOT SEE IT.
WE DIETS
THIGE SMOKE RISING {THAT IS
CALLA, TELLING ME DANGER
THREATENS MY PEOPLE!
‘BALTHAR COMES..
