Conan the Barbarian #111 – “Cimmerian Against a City” – Roy Thomas/John Buscema/Ernie Chan
This one continues from last issue, with Conan waking up with his new “wife” Tossa, who he won by killing her former master last issue. Of course, Conan doesn’t want a wife, but that didn’t stop him from banging her. Conan gets a visit from the family of the man he killed and he quickly frees them from his servitude, while Tossa fills him in on the way the dwarf king Aoska keeps people in line. Apparently, his priests can hear everything (even through walls) by using long prosthetic ears, and the king can control minds as well. Erfu arrives to warn Conan that some of his rebellious musings have been overheard by the
priests and Conan hears a cohort of troops assembling outside. He breaks up an argument between Erfu and Tossa (about Tossa hanging around a guy named Thanamund, who she says is her brother) before heading outside, but after he leaves we see that Tossa and Erfu seem to be using him to get rid of Aosoka for them, with Tossa promising Erfu will get Aosoka’s magic ruby when the king is dead. Conan tells the dwarven troops outside to take him to the king’s palace. On the way, he runs into some of the enslaved Aesir, who insist on accompanying the retinue, and Conan learns their leader Niord is to be flogged for letting Conan kill some of the dwarves last issue. At the palace, Conan grabs a priest and steals his prosthetic ears, evades a volley of arrows, and barricades himself inside the palace. He finds Aosoka’s throne room, but is hit by an electrified net before he can grab the diminutive king. Conan 
breaks free, but the king isn’t really there, he’s just using mirrors to trick Conan. He’s attacked by more dwarf soldiers and takes off, heading outside where he climbs a pyramid. He quickly realizes that the globes on top of the pyramids are mirrors that let Aosoka see what going on all over the city. He smashes one of the mirrors and uses the ears he took to listen to what’s going on. He hears Thanamund calling to him and makes his way to the Aesir across a rope. Thanamund empties a sack full of smoke to cover their escape, but Conan tells him to stay in the city while he heads out to find Niord and the other Aesir. This issue is basically bridging material, setting up the conclusion next issue. This continues the adaptation of Norvell Page’s “Sons of the Bear God”, which Roy seems to be following pretty closely, but which isn’t anything special as far as Conan stories go.
Conan the Barbarian #112 – “Buryat Beseiged” – Roy Thomas/John Buscema/Ernie Chan
This one continues from the above issue, with Conan finding the Aesir camp and confronting Niord about his easy acceptance of servitude to the dwarf-men. After Conan knocks him around a bit, Niord regains his will to fight, but admits he’s cowed by the dwarf-men’s magic. Conan explains that it’s not really magic, showing him the ears he stole and pointing out that the mead the dwarves gave the Aesir probably has lotus extract in it to sap their wills. Conan finds an antidote to the lotus and shows the Aesir how to replicate the masks that will protect them from the strangling smoke in the grasslands. After making a quick trip to find some bears, they head for the city. When the dwarf-men come looking for them,
Conan and the Aesir are wearing bearskins that make them look like were-bears. That scares the shit out of the dwarves and those who don’t flee are defeated easily. When the frightened dwarves tell King Aosoka about the bears attacking them, he figures they’re lying to cover their cowardice. Conan and the Aesir attack the city, using fire to cover their movements and fear of the Bear-God to scare the defenders. Thanamund lets them into the city where their bear costumes freak out the citizens. They make their way to the palace and find Aosoka already dead thanks to Tossa and Thanamund. Conan heads back out to make sure all the dwarf-men have fled, but he’s shocked when Niord tells him 
Thanamund is Tossa’s husband, not her brother. Tossa and Thanamund plan an ambush for Conan, but Erfu warns him just in time. As Thanamund gloats from the parapets, Tossa sticks a dagger in his back and he drags her to her own death as he falls from the wall. Not wanting to live in a city with no women, Conan takes off with Erfu at his side. This is a pretty good conclusion to the Norvell Page adaptation, with Conan using his brains to defeat the dwarf-men as much as his strength. Tossa’s fate is poetic, since she was playing everyone, and it’s good to see Erfu does have some loyalty to Conan after all.