Quite the savage cover, this time from Boris Vallejo! I like how Ka-Zar is popping out in front of the logo.The Ka-Zar story is "Requiem For a Haunted Man!" by Gerry Conway, Russ Heath, and the Crusty Bunkers. Ka-Zar is battling a crocodile when suddenly another man saves him using a bow and arrow, then silently retreats. ?
Ka-Zar then gets in the middle of two warring tribes, one of whom has captured the other's women and is holding hem hostage. While in the middle of the fight, the mysterious archer shows up again and we then find out who he is, where he came from--he's a man running from his past in the regular world. No longer fearing death, he has come to the Savage Land and has found a new reason for existence--the love of a woman.
Next is a text fiction piece by John Jakes called "The Running of the Ladyhound", featuring some spot illustrations by Michael Whelan and Rick Bryant, all the more unusual in that they feature some nudity, a strict no-no I thought in Marvel mags.
Last is Sheena in "Blood Purge!" by Carla Conway, Ross "Andry"(methinks someone didn't proofread this issue too carefully), and Vince Colletta. In a slightly similar story, Shanna finds herself in the middle of a civil war between two factions on the slope of the Himalayas. How in the heck does Shanna not freeze to death in that outfit running around a snowy mountaintop??
Not a bad issue, and the Crusty Bunkers inking on the Ka-Zar story is especially nice.
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"all the more unusual in that they feature some nudity, a strict no-no I thought in Marvel mags."
There was occasional nudity in the b&w mags. In fact, that contused a tiny firestorm when Marvel add clothes to the art in some of the recent reprints from DRACULA LIVES.
i remember lots of almost-nudity, with the naughty bits covered by a convenient shadow, tree limb, or something else, but this was the first real instance of nipples i can remember in a Marvel mag.
...and i hope to never type that sentence again.
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