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Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, theif, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
He had some sixteen summers when he first ventured beyond the dark, forest-locked reaches of his native land, seeking the wonders of fabled Hyperborea.
Captured and enslaved by the sorcerers there, he sought to escape ...