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Wt ASTOUNDING SUPER-SCIENCE a | | TRANGE Brora THE shi * The Giant From Beyoird '=_WEAPON OF TIME iy nee THE LEOPARD MEN | For HUNDRED OF YEARS THE LEO ARO MEN, MEMBERS OF AN EVIL. ARRIGAN CULT, HAVE STALKED THOM TUNGLE 19 MURDER IN SACRIFI~ CIAL RITES. ALTHOUGH BRITISH. BNO FRENGH COLONIAL RULERS HAVE TAKEN EXTRAOROINARY Measunes To STAMP OUT ITS HORRIBLE PRACTICES, THEY OCCUR ‘Yo THis OY Because oF Gf promises By 2 THEIR WITCH Doc: Necaal TORS AN DRESSED IN THE SKIN OF A LEOPARD ANO THEY RECEIVE GREAT. Tims DEAD THE EARTH AROUND SHE Sor WHERE HE LIES 1S TAMPED IMITATION LEoP- Wake 1 Look Y, \ "A HUNTING DOWN OF THE MURDEROUS. Beir a Loran | Guctists. iN 1904 WAS “THOUGHT TO) ¢ f HAVE WIPED THEM OUT, BUT IT WAS aoe NOT SUSCESSFUL. LEOPARD HEN RAL ood! a i TO THIS VERY DAY. game THOUSANDS OF CENTURIES BEFORE THE FIRST RECORDED HISTORY OF MANKIND,THERE WERE STRANGE KINGDOMS AND EVEN STRANGER PEOPLES UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTHITALES| OF GIANTS THAT HAVE COME DOWN TOUS, --= THROUGH THE Misty ACES, GOBACK TO THE TIME| OF EARTH'S DAWN, WHEN A/MONSTER NAMED BALTHAR CAME UP OUT OF THE JUNGLE LaNDS,| LEADING His PAGAN FOLLOWERS TO PILLAGE AND GONQUEST! ‘AND THERE,IN WHAT IS NOW THE NILE VALLEY, CROM THE BARBARIAN, FOUGHT HIS GREATEST FIGHT AGAINST... THE GIANT FROM BEYOND| [EVEN IN THOSE OAYS,NO MAN KNEW WHERE BALTHAR THE TERRIBLE WAS BORN! HE EMERGED FIRST IN THE CLIFF COUNTRY, SOUTH [//SALTHAR NOT SEE PERSON LIKE WER YOU SEEF BALTHAR GAN TEAR | [ IN TERROR, BEFORE‘ VERY LITTLE’ WHERE BALTHA UP TREE! BALTHAR MIGHTIEST] | THE AWED Coue evenveooy olor eaLthan/| | thine in woRCD: You PORE Or NO..PLEASE? =, CREPT TOTHE bana — x : FEETOR THE 60 AWAY. GO" 4 g Mighty GIANT INTHE PAGAN EYES, HEWAS ‘A GoD WITH YOUTO LEAD US, WE LEAD US! LEAD ust WILL BECOME GREATY‘suT | |GREAT PLAIN COUNTAY.LAY. YOU ARE OUR We must co nontH,waere |) THE RicH city OPHIR/AULED. CHIEF, OUR RULERT TRADE CARAVANS MOVE IN. DESERT AND JUNGLE’ WE WiLL RAID THEM, CAPTURI SILKS AND GOLD. ote /roon? t Ano Wan vEweLss/£0007 1 TW THE THRONE ROOM, POETRY? GOD OF INO? FUL ‘GROM BROODED WITH. GO MAD LISTENING TO THIS SULLEN FURY HEY Fool PRATE AND MEW HIS FELT GHAINED TO THIS ‘WORDS! GODS, weiAT T WOULDN'T] HUGE GOLDEN THRONE, GIVE FOR ONE Good swORD- FELT GHAINED' TO. FIGHT RIGHT NOW? THIS ‘QUEENLY TANIT. His. IS'NO LIFE FOR ME? HAND NisSeD THE GRID} OF His LONGSWORD.. J fis'b0 by GREW SOFT WITH EASY LIVING £ ‘SUDDENLY, STAGGERING INTO THE THRONE: TES BADLY WOUNDED! \TAKE HIM TO YOUR ROOM CAME’ A MAN, HALF-DEAD WITH _| | ExiausTeD? He Must \ROONS.cROM! E WiLL ete Have COME a HUNDRED JOON AND LISTEN TO, TE Hives To gRINGUS nie TALE TIE WE. RAGKEO AND LooTED.-AclaNT Ene Wonk FoR’) To stawe Our THIS. OF AMAN.. & HUNDRED TALL. f. cannweLt 001? ‘BS GROW LISTENS TOTHE STORY OF THE WOUNDED) (‘HO,LITTLE ONES? WARRIOR, HE SEES THE SCENE IN HIS MINDS Eve!) | TASTE OF SALTHAR 1 THis Ss WHAT MY PEOPLE WANT,T WILL GeT IT FOR er fy STRENGTHS THE CARAVAN APPROACHES! GOODE THE CLOSER IT COMES, THE FEWER WILL ESCAPE. FROM MY CLUB f INE MAN, WOUNDED AND IN PAIN, CRAWLED WEAKLY FROM THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION. WARN US OF THs GOD OF IND.. PERHAPS GIANT! BY THORS HAM: TGAN FIND A HORSE MER, IT WILL BE GooD SOMEWHERE. RIDE TO RIDE THE swonD- NORTH TO OPHIR. PATH ONCE AGAIN: WARN TANI’ AND ROM: [AUC THAT WIGHT, BY THE UGhT OF FLAMING BE CAREFUL. [TORGHES, cROM WADE HIS PLANS. TAYE, TANITY BUT WY To the Peorce ortneoawn | [ry 1 WATERS OF THE pays or carta wanwas a | |nekus Took THe WOODEN CONSTANT GAME, AND FARE ~ BOATS OF OPHIR AND SENT SHew SOUTHWARD SWIFTLY. WELL GO BY THE WELLS ETERNAL, BRINGME AoiaNT's NTO THE RIVERISWiM? Swim YOUR LIVES! MUCH AS SCRATCH HPs ARMOR! [ THE MIGHTY JaWS GAPED WIDE? WITH A SNARLING| [TT KILLED wy Hiss. THE MONSTER GFT THROUGH MEN AND BoaT.| | OLD COMRADE GROMT HE WILL KILL IT ) KNOW WHAy TO BEFORE ( ‘DOP HISs SwoRD Treats |WIU EAT THROUGH| THOSE SCALES! KLE [OH MOTHER ‘OF AESIR. AGAIN, THE SERPENT HEAD FLASHED BOWN- THE JAWS BIT DEEP. ‘CRON COMES HE WAS INTHE LAST BOAT, BUT HE COMES, Now! WITH WATER GLISTENINGFROM] [HOLD THEM STEADY? [SWORD AND FANG MET WITH A UNEQUAL FIGHT. SKULL-BITER TO BEAR HO FOUL DWELLER Tervounsnmic aaa) [setaaeevaeeiey | |gactidlsa eins OPHIR! MAKE A FLOOR FOR Lan eee SLIMY BED! DRINK, Withee | Get THE IATTRAGTED BY THE BLOOD oF BaTTLe. cove OTHER 'SH- HUNGRY CREATURES. For A WHILE, THE SOLDIERS OROVE BACK THE CAVE PEOPLE’, AND THEN, TOWERING OVER THEM Meawnniice, 10 Te SOUTH, THe cave PEOPLE Raioee aNDUoreD The TRADE CARAVAN OF Might OPuIRe AUS cane BACTHAR’ KILL THEM ALLT Tey can overcome Y ophitels yeaa Re'| | ‘ncamsr satrnar?euT cS ee eHoer ake | | See wnat BALTHAR'S, Beaman ye \ Ne wismiesy we | | Skewmar Sa Tiare Saale cwobsine” JLo Peo ot ) Pik! THE WORLD! [FROM THEIR BOATS, CROM AND WIS LITTLE ARIAY MOVED INLAND, BY CUTTING THROUGH THE JUN: /SLE.WE WILL CONE UPON THIS TAM THE GREATEST THING] | AHH, SOOO" WHEN BaLTHaR Fahad ee Sheatane Wo" | [ aie seen Aran aN CAs as ew can Stawo aeaiver 4 | Beopce notraro cowaues YOUARE "| [Suan mis erase or nD OnEeS: ‘SO MUCH THE BETTER! "AND THEN ONE DAY WITH THE JUNGLE BEHIND, [BUT HUGE GORILLAS, FIERCE LORDS OF THE DEEP | ESTJUNGLE,FOUSHT THE INVADERS AT EVERY STEP) | THEM. NY We've FOUND THEN,TARA ‘GO GAGK KILL SWIFTLY, MEN OF OPHIR? TOOK A ANO BRING UP THE TROOPS, WHILE YONDER!) "GOON AHEAD TO SCOUT OUT THE THESE CREATURES ARE STRON: THE GAVE oes WAY OF FIGHTING THEM! BUT OUR SWORDS AND AXES ‘ARE TOO MUCH FOR THEM? Ag | Peore's TF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A GIANT, = ‘SEE NO SIGN OF HIM f AND THEN, MOVING THROUGH Hite TREES BORDERING THE PLAINS, CAME THE GIANT FIGURE) loreactaaR. = 1S8{ THERE /SAGIANT..TALLER THAN THE TREES NO WONDER NO MERE MAN CAN 00 ANY. THING AGAINST HIM. IF WY ARMY SECS THAT MON lSreR,THey'LL STAMPEDE WITH FRIGHT? T MUST ORDER aN JATTACK AT ONGE ON THE Cave PEOPLE... AND HOPE THAT A CUekY win KEEPS THAT RUGE| CREATURE FAR AWAY. + AS THEY RAN, THE ARCHERS HALTED EVERY. HIGHINTO THE AIR, TOWARD THE GAVE PEOPLE, ROM ORDERED HIS ARCHERS FORWARD AT A TROT] SEVENTH STEP AND OROVE THEIR SLIM ARROWS BEHIND THE CRUDE STONE WALLS, THE CAVE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE STALKS BEFORE THE HAIL OF WAR ARROWS f THEY HAVE NO BOWMEN') HAVE FEATHERED WORTHY OF THE NAME) iy SHAFTS IN MANY Tals WILL-BE A OF THE FOOLS SLAUGHTER. ~~ “ALREADY! ‘ONLY BALTHAR GAN SAVE US! THOSE VETERANS oF OPRIR'S ARMY! WHEREIS BALTHAR? THIS 15 THE SIGNAL THAT WE ARE IN TROUBLE? IF BALTHAR SEES IT, HE WILL COME IN TIME TO SAVE US. IFHE DOES NOT SEE IT. WE DIETS THIGE SMOKE RISING {THAT IS CALLA, TELLING ME DANGER THREATENS MY PEOPLE! ‘BALTHAR COMES..