About
Through the history of mankind, the times that are most recorded in mythology and song are those
of great deeds and fantastic adventures. Such a time was the Hyborean Age. Such a tale is
the story of "Conan the Barbarian."
Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents' savage murder by raiding Vanir led by
Thulsa Doom, head also of the malignant snake-cult of Set. Fifteen years' agony, first
chained to the Wheel of Pain grinding grain and then enslaved as a Pit Fighter, forge
a magnificent body and indomitable spirit. Freed miraculously one day by his owner, Conan, with his
companions Subotai the Mongol, and Valeria, Queen of Thieves, sets forth upon his quest
to learn 'the riddle of steel' which, his fatehr has prophesied, will confer ultimate power;
and to kill the arch-villan Thulsa Doom.
