Volume #10 begins with Belit and Conan going back to Belit's home city in order to get potion to save her mentor N'yaga. This will set them on the road to Stygia where they will get involved in the inner politics of this sorcerer-kingdom with epic battles and monster encounters as a result.

All in all good collection, although stories are more comic(y?) here than in previous issues. Again lots of over dramatic postures, teeth barring and bombast dialog - everything that marked the action comics of the time. In any case it did not prove to be too much disconcerting to me thanks to the page organisation and composition.

Art is again great, Buscema's art again being more to my liking than the rest. Even with all the drama and bombast Buscema manges to give Conan story that epic feeling that somehow eluded the other authors of the period. H. Chaykin is also good but again not as good as Buscema (at least for me).
Coloring is not so good in the first few chapters (it is somewhat grainy) but gets back to quality of previous volumes 1/3 into the book.

Excellent volume, highly recommended to Conan and sword-and-sorcery genre fans in general. ( )

By now Roy Thomas is masterful at adapting any old Robert Howard tale to Conan, and this is what he does here. Conan and Belit are trying to win back her lost kingdom, now ruled by Stygians. After dealing with treachery among her crew, she and Conan infiltrate Stygia but are attacked by neutral Hawk riders half way to the capital. An assured but otherwise unexceptional sequence follows. ( )