USA Comics brings you the one and only Conan the Barbarian! Conan is a young warrior, traveling among with the golden-haired Aesir in a war party. Shortly before the story begins, a hand-to-hand battle has occurred on an icy plain. Eighty men have perished in bloody combat, and Conan alone survives the battlefield where Wulfhere's Aesir "reavers" faced the Vanir "wolves" of Bragi, a Vanir chieftain. Thus, the story opens. Following his fierce battle against the red-haired Vanir, Conan, lying exhausted on a corpse-ridden battlefield, is visited by a beautiful and partially-nude woman identifying herself as "Atali". Upon her bodice, she wears a transparent veil: a wisp of gossamer that wasn't spun by human origin. The mere sight of her strange beauty awakens Conan's lust and, when she repeatedly taunts him, he insanely chases Atali for miles across the snow-covered region while attempting to capture her. Mocking him with each step, Atali lures Conan into an ambush. Undaunted by the snare, Conan slays her hulking twin brothers, two Frost Giants, and captures Atali in his arms. However, Atali calls upon her father, Ymir, to save her. Before Conan is able to ravish her, Atali disappears in a stroke of lightning which seemingly transforms the landscape and renders him unconscious. Later, when his Aesir comrades arrive, Conan believes he simply dreamed the bizarre encounter. Suddenly, Conan realizes he's still gripping onto a translucent veil which served as the sole garment of the Frost-Giant's daughter. "Conan the Barbarian was created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales from 1932. For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s." This story is not the first story published by Robert E Howard but is often viewed as the first in the chronical life of Conan. It was originally published as "The God's of the North" after being rejected and changed and published in The Fantasy Fan magazine. The original version of the was published in 1953 after Howard's death as "The Frost-Giant's Daughter". Coming soon from USA Comics: Scooby-Doo 15 and Dinotastic 3. Still on "sale": Flash Gordon 5 and Dinotastic 2