Savage Sword of Conan #4 (2008)

Conan on horse with axe over his head.

Conan, standing atop a rocky mound with a woman sitting at his feet, holding a sword up to fight off a winged reptile.

Conan and his pirates chase after the Turanian general Artaban, who has killed their wounded comrades in cold blood. Artaban saves the slave girl Roxana from Hyrkanian reavers, and she quickly talks him into saving Prince Teyaspa of Turan, who is being held prisoner in the castle of Gleg the Zaporoskan. Meanwhile, Conan befriends Vinashko, a former Yuetshi chief who shows Conan a secret passage to Gleg's castle, where Conan finds and kills Artaban. In despair, Roxana kills Teyaspa and then herself. Chased by demons, Conan escapes only to find that the pirates have abandoned him.

Conan on a galloping horse, holding up an object in his left hand.

Young Conan has joined a band of Aesir, led by Jarl Njal, who have ventured into Hyperborea in order to free Njal's kidnapped daughter Rann. A scouting party is captured and tortured to death by the Hyperborean Witch-men in the Haloga fort. Conan sneaks into the fort and frees Rann, but Queen Vammatar sends the legion of the undead after them. Rann escapes while Conan is enslaved.

Conan with sword in had facing a lizard creature coming from a woman's body.

Conan, holding an axe in both hands, standing with his right foot on the throat of a large, dead reptile at the edge of some water.

Conan, girl, skull and lion with helmet.

Conan, standing on a rock mound with a dead man at his feet, holding a halberd with two hand over his head, the head of the dead man on the spike, while several warriors look down on him from two ledges and with a large bird flying across the sun, overhead.

Conan standing on a pile of debris with bloody sword in hand, a woman lying at his feet, with several flying creatures and a large skull in the background.

Conan comes to Ophir looking to sell the Star of Khorala to Queen Marala, but Captain Garus tells him that the king has imprisoned the queen in a tower. Conan and Garus frees her, but are then pursued by the king's cousin Rigello and his men. They make their last stand in a ruin, but ultimately, they are saved by the ghost soldiers who served Marala's ancestor.

Conan standing on a rock with sword held over his head with two hands following a bloody arc from one of the attacking warriors he just sliced.

Conan in water cave.

Conan standing with his back to the viewer holding a warrior over his head at the edge of a cliff with a bound woman sitting in the foreground behind him.

Fleeing from the Picts, Conan comes across a cave filled with treasures – and a terrible demon! Nearby, Zingarian nobleman Valenso has settled with his family up north to escape his past. Rival pirate captains, Strombanni and Zarono, land on the shores of Valensos domain, seeking the lost treasure of Tranicos. Valenso is not interested, but when he learns that the Stygian magician Thoth-Amon has been sighted nearby, he panics and declares he will do anything to board a ship. They are joined by Conan, who now is the only one who knows the location of the treasure.

Conan standing on a spire of rock, both arms raised holding a sword and shield, facing warriors while a kneeling woman tied to a post is behind him.

Conan leads the rival pirate captains Strombanni and Zarono to the treasure of Tranicos, hoping that the guardian demon will kill them. Conan's plan fails, and they all form another uneasy alliance to battle the Picts and make it back to Valenso's fort. The fort is eventually overrun by the Picts and Valenso atones for his transgressions against Thoth-Amon when he is killed by a demon. Conan saves Valenso's niece and her servant girl and is rescued by a delegation of Aquilonian noblemen who ask him to help overthrow their mad king. The ever ambitious Conan agrees.