Before Titan, The Savage Sword of Conan was Marvel’s black-and-white magazine.
It ran from 1974 to 1995, and plenty of you still have your copies. Issue #29, from May 1978, carried a story called “Child of Sorcery.” In it a high priestess finally tells her daughter who her father really was, and what he did to save her from a sorcerer twenty years earlier.
That story came from Christy Marx, the first woman to write a Conan story.
After meeting the legendary Roy Thomas at a Los Angeles fan gathering (who said he’d never seen Conan told from a woman’s point of view) she went home and wrote that story on a typewriter. It was her first sale as a comic author, which Roy Thomas went onto script and Ernie Chan drew. Christy would go onto develop the Conan the Adventurer animated series in the ’90s, and she hired Roy to write for it, too.
Nearly fifty years later, Christy has written what happens to that daughter she first wrote about. “A Child of Cimmeria” in Savage Sword #17 is the first legacy sequel to a classic Savage Sword story in Conan’s modern era, with Alex Horley’s cover for #17 acting as a tribute to Chan’s 1978 original.
The complete original is below, free.
Read it first, then pick up Titan’s Savage Sword of Conan #17, out on November 11, 2026.
Lo Terry
In his effort to help Heroic Signatures tell legendary stories, Lo Terry does a lot. Sometimes, that means spearheading an innovative, AI-driven tavern adventure. In others it means writing words in the voice of a mischievous merchant for people to chuckle at. It's a fun time.
