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In search of an ancient relic that would command untold rich , Conanclashes with Namor , the Submariner in oceanic intrigue late beneath the moving ridge in the May take ofConan : Battle for the Serpent Crown . Writer Saladin Ahmed and creative person Luke Ross presents the audacious tike ’s most life-threatening rip-off yet — slip a wondrous artifact from the subaquatic realm of Atlantis . After tally his roguish expertise against theBlack Catin Las Vegas and the safeguard of concealed Wakanda , the intrepid Conan post it all in the sunken city of Atlantis , this May fromMarvel Comics .
Throughout time and across extra - dimensional blank space , the depraved influence of the Serpent Crown has plagued humans , passed from pagan priest to the perfidious brow of amoral monarch since the day of antiquity . Serpent furor have long revered the sinuate treetop , and the malevolent schemes of implike sorcerers have drawn on its fabulous powers to fuel arcane ritual for age . InConan : Serpent War , Robert E. Howard ’s swashbucklersDark Agnes , Solomon Kane , andConan the Barbarianare gather from across time and , with the embodiment of Khonshu , Moon Knight , tasked with destroying relics of ancient world power in a conflict against the Snake River god , Set . While their exploit are largely successful , the unsettling circlet of intertwining serpent is shifted , back across time , to the pre - cataclysmic Thurian Age and bestowed upon the Atlantean - born barbarian , King Kull of Valusia by a threatening Lemurian priest . The influence of the Serpent Crown transcends time and space , flex its buff to its malign will and compelling their actions to further its apart purpose .
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Conan : Battle for the Serpent Crownchronicles the continuing saga of the cursed crown with the hunt for the Atlantean artifact returning to the fabled city of its inception . In the swords and black art tales of Robert E. Howard , the mythical metropolis ofAtlantisexists in the time that predates the Hyborian Age of Conan , before it fell into the sea , and from that anti - diluvian geological era comes another of Howard ’s literary creation , Kull the Conqueror . The events of theSerpent War , “ Chapter IV : Kingdom of the Worm , ” from Jim Zub and Ig Guara , discover the Serpent Crown conferred upon Kull in the final frames of the miniskirt - series , reigniting the cycle of the sinister relic . Hurtled out - of - time and into the modern world , Conan the savage gamble it all against the Submariner to steal the Atlantean artifact in the undersea city , in May’sConan : Battle for the Serpent Crown , from Marvel Comics .
While avarice and an empty purse has driven Conan to climb the tugboat of the malevolent sorcerer , Yara to slip the fabled gem , “ The Heart of the Elephant , ” and to purloin the legendary “ Teeth of Gwahlur,”precious stones hidden in the ancient urban center of Alkmeenon , the uncivilised - stealer has yet to jibe wits with winged - feet — against thehalf - human / half - Atlantean variation , Namor . With the Serpent Crown several thousand leagues under the sea , the clock time - traveling scoundrel dives deep for concealed treasure , in the submarine vaults of the deep-set city . Leaving Las Vegas for Wakanda , Conanfights to the last breath , or an timeless existence down in Davy Jones ’ Locker , this May inConan : Battle for the Serpent Crown .
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