Conan the Barbarian #37 (Marvel: 1974) | The Curse of the Golden Skull | 59

In a world where ancient wizards don’t stay dead…

In a valley where gold fuels madness…

One barbarian will face a curse older than the Hyborian Age itself.

In this episode of Hither Came Conan, Steeven unleashes the full, unstoppable fury of Conan the Barbarian #37: The Curse of the Golden Skull—a tale where a long-dead sorcerer rises in shimmering golden flesh, a kidnapped princess faces a fate worse than marriage, and a giant, ravenous slug slithers out of the abyss to devour anything dipped in glitter.

Captured by hillmen. Chained in the mines. Hunted through darkness by monsters too big to draw comfortably on a monthly deadline. Conan and Juma must outfight, outrun, and outwit Rotath—the golden tyrant of the Valley of the Sun—before they become the next sacrifices to the Devil of the Pits.

Epic wizardry. Impossible escapes. Gold theft on a heroic scale. And a slug that could give your nightmares nightmares.

This is the adventure Neal Adams penciled like lightning and Roy Thomas stitched together from the brink of disaster.

This is blood, sweat, chains, and molten sorcery.

This is Episode 59.

And Hyboria will never shine the same way again.

Conan the Barbarian #37: The Curse of the Golden Skull was published by Marvel Comics in January of 1974.

Enjoy!

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