Maybe if I bump it up to three a year...

There were 133 issues of the original Warlord series (and 6 annuals!) and while I've joked about blogging an issue or two a year, we're still maybe not quite a quarter through the series! (Do I even have all of them? Um, well...) I don't plan on covering every single issue, but today we'll do a quick one with a checklist of the others we've seen so far! From 1982, Warlord #52, "The Sorceress' Apprentice" Written by Mike Grell (with uncredited scripting by Sharon Grell), pencils by Mark Texiera, inks by Mike DeCarlo. This was the first issue with the main feature not penciled by Grell!

Travis had ended up in the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and was working his way back to Skartaris; in bloody fashion. Admittedly, it's not like the Russian troops would listen to him or believe him even if he spoke Russian, but he's just tearing into them. Jacking a helicopter, Travis begins a long trip; while back at Castle Deimos, his daughter Jennifer was still mostly catatonic, severely traumatized by Deimos. The witch Ashiya sees something in her, though: Jennifer understood machines (at least, better than Ashiya did) so the witch wanted her help with the ancient Atlantean machines in the castle. In return, she would teach Jennifer magic.

Ashiya takes the form of Jennifer's mother, Travis's first wife; to gain her trust. The two begin teaching each other, even if Jennifer's protector Faaldren doesn't approve. He's never a major character, but I forget Faaldren's deal: from Ashiya's threat, I think he was a lizard or maybe a snake, turned into a man. Very Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo, but she just needed some muscle, someone to open jars and clean the gutters and so on.  Meanwhile, Travis nearly gets back to Skartaris when he runs out of fuel and crashes the helicopter, but is greeted by a pleasant surprise: Tara and Shakira! Who normally wouldn't travel together, but it was too cold for Shakira to change out of her "fur coat!"

Also this issue: back-up feature "Dragonsword," written by Paul Levitz, art by Tom Yeates. It...it's not one of my favorites.

Annual #5

#133

#128

#121

#111

#104

#100

#95

#93

#87

#84

#79-80 (The Barren Earth features.)

 
#77

#66

#63 (The Barren Earth feature, anyway.)

#60

#54

#50

#48

#46

#42

#41

#40

#39

#38

#37 (The OMAC back-up.)

#35

#31
 
#27

#26

#23

#22

#17

#4

#3

#2