They drew Kull into Torranna and had him undergo a series of trials to gain the crown of Torranna. Thulsa Doom manipulated Garn-Nak, Karr-Lo-Zann, and Norra of Torranna. To this end, he took on the aspect of the god of Torranna and advised its inhabitants how best to bring this about. In the return of Kull the Destroyer, Thulsa Doom/Ardyon learned of the curse of Torranna (essentially, if a scarred man wore the crown and sat the throne, he'd be unable to ever leave the throne), which he determined to bestow upon Kull. Kull and the Barbarians lasted three issues until it was cancelled. Kull and Brule's ship was later attacked by a sea serpent, with which Thulsa may or may not have had anything to do. Thulsa observed the battle through a magic crystal. Thulsa Doom sent members of the Black Legion to ambush Kull and Brule, though they won the fight. Kull resumes his quest in the pages of Kull and the Barbarians, a black-and-white Marvel magazine format (published under the Curtis Magazines imprint). Posing as the nobleman Ardyon, he forms an alliance with four rebels within Valusia: the dwarfish Ducalon, the soldier Enaros, Baron Kanuub, and the minstrel Ridondo, who actually dethroned the hero, and set him on a quest to regain his lost kingdom, in the pages of his own comic, until it gets cancelled. Thulsa Doom returns in Kull the Conqueror #11, "By This Axe I Rule", based on an original story by Robert E. He was often a featured foe in the Marvel Kull comics (for instance, Kull the Conqueror #3 and #7). In comic booksĪ powerful necromancer, Thulsa Doom is primary foe of Kull's comics version. Thulsa Doom is described by Howard in "The Cat and the Skull" as having face "like a bare white skull, in whose eye sockets flamed livid fire." He is seemingly invulnerable, boasting after being run through by one of Kull's comrades that he feels "only a slight coldness" when being injured and will only "pass to some other sphere when time comes."Īs Thulsa Doom's original story was not published in Howard's lifetime he reused the character, as "Kathulos of Atlantis", in his 1929 story Skull-Face. The story did not see print until 1967 in the paperback King Kull published by Lancer Books. This version was submitted to Weird Tales in 1928 but it was not accepted. Editor Patrice Louinet speculated that this was because Howard had originally intended Kuthulos (whom Doom impersonates in the story) to be the actual villain before coming up with Thulsa Doom near the story's completion. Howard later edited the text to include foreshadowing and references to Thulsa Doom (as he had been rechristened) throughout the story and changed the title to The Cat and the Skull to reflect this. Howard, which featured the character Kull as the protagonist. Thulsa Doom first appeared (as Thulses Doom) at the end of the short story "Delcardes' Cat" by Robert E.
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