(W) Kurt Busiek (A/CA) Greg Ruth. At the age of ten* Conan already finds boyhood too small to contain his manly strength and ambition. But when disease strikes him and his village* he is left weak and unworthy. Determined to regain his self-respect* he journeys alone to the site of one of Cimmeria's bloodiest battles but little does Conan know that vile men hide in the shadows of this place* waiting to prey upon those so foolish as to awaken the fallen warriors from their uneasy sleep.