Conan the Barbarian #109 – “Sons of the Bear God” – Roy Thomas/John Buscema/Ernie Chan
This one starts with Conan and Erfu making their way through the Sea of Buryat, a vast grassland that Erfu thinks is haunted. They run into some Shemites who attack immediately, forcing Conan to kill a bunch of them before he and Erfu can flee into the supposedly haunted grass. Erfu uses a strange whistle to scare the Shemites off, making it sound like a disembodied voice from the tall grass. Conan decides to save time by cutting through the vast prairie, despite
Erfu’s objections. They’re attacked by a choking mist and Erfu almost suffocates until Conan drives the deadly vapour away. They find a dead Shemite and his horse, killed without a mark of violence upon them (probably by the same mist that almost strangled Erfu). They hear the sound of marching feet and find a bunch of Aesir being forced to march by some surly dwarves. When the dwarves try to add Conan to their slave-train, he naturally fights back. When only one dwarf is left, he sends out an ear-splitting wail before keeling over dead. 
Conan realizes the Aesir are led by his old companion Niord (who we saw in issue 16), who tells Conan the Aesir weren’t cowed by the dwarves, but by what they could summon to fight for them. Conan soon finds out what he means when a gigantic bear shows up ready to rip them all to shreds. This issue is the first of a four-part adaptation of “Sons of the Bear God” by Norvell Page, whose “Flame Winds of Lost Khitai” was previously adapted in issues 32-34. This story has a very similar plot, with Erfu taking the place of Bourtai from the earlier tale.
Conan the Barbarian #110 – “Beware the Bear of Heaven” – Roy Thomas/John Buscema/Ernie Chan
This one continues immediately from the above issue, with the Aesir freaking out about the gigantic bear. But Conan notices the grass isn’t crushed under the bear’s paws and figures it’s just an illusion. He’s right, but when the illusion dissipates, it releases some kind of gas that knocks Conan out. He awakens being carried by the Aesir to a city hidden in the middle of the grass sea. (Erfu is being brought along too, but in a much less humiliating way.) The city is populated by more of the strange dwarves and Conan wonders why the Aesir submit so readily to slavery instead of fighting back against their diminutive overlords. Conan and Erfu are taken
to a palace within the city, obviously built for the dwarves since the Aesir have to get on their knees just to pass through the gate. Conan and Erfu are taken to the throne room of the dwarf king (Aosoka), but Conan refuses to prostrate himself before the tiny monarch. Aosoka is ready to dispose of Conan right away, but Erfu (who speaks the dwarf language) gets the king to give Conan a chance at freedom … if he can kill the great bear of heaven with no weapons. Erfu is thrown in the arena too, since the dwarves think him to be a great wizard and Conan to be his slave. Conan uses a discarded chain to fight the bear and ends up breaking its neck, impressing the dwarves. Erfu tells them he helped with his “magic”, so he (and Conan) are appointed to take the bear’s 
place as official court executioners. While recovering from his wounds, Conan meets Tossa, an Aesir woman who has adapted enough of the city’s ways to tell him she’s chosen him as a husband. He’s not interested but when she’s attacked by a panther, he jumps to her rescue. The “panther” turns out to be a shape-changing Aesir and Conan kills him, winning Tossa as his wife. Conan has no wish to settle down, but Tossa is pretty hot so he decides he may as well enjoy his wedding night. This is the second part of the Norvell Page adaptation, with the part three coming next issue. Again, Roy stuck pretty closely to the original, but as Conan stories go it’s not exactly a classic.