DaveMilly

Wow yes -- that's the issue! Amazing, thank you so much!

Hey Everyone! Trying to figure out this issue of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian that I read as a kid. From what I can remember, he's traveling through some inhospitable desert and stumbles upon a Biodome-style oasis that I think he gets trapped in the moment he walks in. He's then informed that somewhere inside is the earthly incarnation of Satan himself? Or Death? Something along those lines. And that this would be his one opportunity to kill it. As I recall, he makes his way through killing a couple of terrifying beasts, and then I -think- comes across an infant child. And says something to the effect of "Screw you, I'm not killing a kid. If its Satan, I'll kill him in 18 years" or whatever, and somehow leaves. Then as I remember, the last panel is something you never would've considered, like a random turtle or salamander, more or less winking at the panel and you realize the infant kid WAS a human kid, and Satan/Death was the turtle. Does anyone know what I'm talking about/what issue this was? It's proving absurdly hard to find thru Google. I believe it was early 80s.

OH MY GOD!!!!!!! You just blew my mind! Seriously, THANK YOU! I have not looked at that page in 25 years!!!! You, sir, must have an excellent, excellent day. Thank you!!!! Ordering this issue ASAP to read again.

Hi all! New poster here, and I'm hoping one (or some) of you can help me to figure out a comic I read as a kid that I have been spending DECADES trying to identify!I think it was possibly a Charlton or similar anthology. I read it at my grandmother's house in the early-to-mid 80s, but I think it was probably a comic left behind by an older cousin, so its likely from the 70s to very early 80s at the latest. Anyway -- The only story I remember was a short, maybe 5 page thing. A man and a woman are wandering the urban ruins in a post-apocalypse sometime in the future. Buildings are destroyed, ancient rubble everywhere, etc. They come upon an old, long deactivated robot. The woman says something like "These robots used to service people in the old days! If we can get it working it will find food for us!" The man then goes to work fixing it, it turns on, its eyes glow bright red and it says something like "HUMANS DETECTED-EXECUTE!" and strangles the woman, kills the man, then wanders off to go find more humans. The end. If any of you can figure out what this was I will be eternally grateful! I feel like it was a short story in the back of a longer anthology issue, but my memory is fuzzy at this point. Thank you!

Hi all! New poster here, and I'm hoping one (or some) of you can help me to figure out a comic I read as a kid that I have been spending DECADES trying to identify! I think it was possibly a Charlton or similar anthology. I read it at my grandmother's house in the early-to-mid 80s, but I think it was probably a comic left behind by an older cousin, so its likely from the 70s to very early 80s at the latest. Anyway -- The only story I remember was a short, maybe 5 page thing. A man and a woman are wandering the urban ruins in a post-apocalypse sometime in the future. Buildings are destroyed, ancient rubble everywhere, etc. They come upon an old, long deactivated robot. The woman says something like "These robots used to service people in the old days! If we can get it working it will find food for us!" The man then goes to work fixing it, it turns on, its eyes glow bright red and it says something like "HUMANS DETECTED-EXECUTE!" and strangles the woman, kills the man, then wanders off to go find more humans. The end. If any of you can figure out what this was I will be eternally grateful! I feel like it was a short story in the back of a longer anthology issue, but my memory is fuzzy at this point. Thank you!