Here's a Warlord nit. Where did Travis Morgan get ammunition for his Automag? Altho' it was chambered in a number of calibres, most commonly .357, .41, and .44 Magnum, these were not the standard revolver cartridges in these calibres, but cartridges specific to the Automag. They used cut down .308 Remington/7.62mm NATO cartridge casings. Commercial Automag ammo was made only briefly. So was Morgan toting a complete reloading setup around Skartaris? Did he buy every box of commercial Automag ammo he could get his hands on?

Magic? Atlantean superscience? ;-)

The only in-comic source I know of was that all his spare ammo was in his plane. He got his Automag in issue 3 from his crashed plane and in a later issue he was shown picking up some more ammo from it, but it does seem strange that so much ammo would be stored on a plane. (Okay, there's always the possibility of crashing in enemy territory, but how many bullets would a pilot be given?)

Were the weapons of Straker's men in issue 6 compatible? Or even Straker's weapons in issue 13?

Maybe Jennifer had a bunch when she came to Skartaris???

Apparently it was stated in a letter column (issue 22 repeated it, but I don't know which originally) that Morgan had 400 rounds of ammo.

Land Of Fear! 1st Issue Special #8
Morgan's plane flies over the North Pole & his compass goes wild.
Problem is that should only happen over the Magnetic North Pole, but the chart of his path shows him flying over the geographic North Pole. Since he's flying from Soviet Union airspace & the surface is curving to take him into the center of the Earth he shouldn't be anywhere near the magnetic north pole, which I'm told is somewhere in either Canada or Alaska. (Oddly enough I couldn't find out exactly where when I checked reference books that I thought would tell me.)

I've also been told that an airplane compass is designed not to go crazy on such a situation.

Also he's flying at Mach 3, so how long would his compass really be going wild if he did fly over magnetic north? Half a second?

Morgan explains his theory of Skartaris, that it's inside the center of the Earth, 800 miles below the surface, & that the polar opening is 1400 miles across & the curve is so gradual he never realized that he wasn't flying over the top of the world.
Seismological evidence has put an end to the idea of an inner world. And even if it was such a gradual curve that early explorers didn't realize it in their quests for the north pole, satellites should have shown somekinda hole up there.
The anti-nit is that Morgan is wrong. However flashbacks in Warlord's #1 & 3 reprint Morgan's map & issue 6 explicitly mentions that it's 800 miles from the inner surface to the outer surface.

Warlord: The Savage Empire
NNANJAO. This reprint of early Warlord stories (1st issue Special #8 & Warlord's 1-10 & 12) edits out the flashback scenes from issues #1 & 3. (And if you're wondering why have a flashback in 3 it was because 7 months had passed since issue 2 while they waited to see the sales figures on the book.)
Pages 1, 3 & 4 of issue 1 & pages 6 & 7 of issue 2 are not reprinted.

This Savage World Warlord #1
Morgan refers to the giant therapod as a Tyrannosaur, except that it has three fingers on it's hands. Real Tyrannosaurs had two. Then again when someone has a house-sized hungry lizard coming after them, counting the fingers would not be the first thing most people would do.

Duel Of The Titans Warlord #4
Deimos mentions Hell.
Why would an Atlantean descended person who's been isolated from the outside world know of Hell?
Possible anti-nits.
1. He didn't say Hell, the word he used was simply translated to something the audience would understand just like the rest of his dialogue.
2. IINM Hell comes from the Norse goddess Hel or Hela, who ruled a place of the dead, so possibly Vikings had sailed into Skartaris & brought their beliefs with them which become part of the Skartaran belief system.
3. Hell was originally an Atlantean name that managed to get passed down through the ages by the descendents of Atlantean colonies on the surface.

Deimos tells Tara he knew Morgan would come because he had her prisoner.
That's an amazing guess on Deimos's part. When Tara last saw Morgan he was facing off against an army of slavers in issue #1. The logical assumption would be that he was dead.
I suppose one could argue that Deimos only recently realized that Morgan was still alive & was the man people were calling The Warlord, although one would wonder why he had kept Tara instead of ransoming her to her father, the king of Shamballah.

This month Sequential Tart had an article about Great Reveals in comics & thinking it over I thought of the end of Warlord #3, the map of Atlantis, & the end of this issue, where we find out that the Scrolls of Blood were actually a computer manual for computer number B-100-D.
However, even though it's a Great Reveal it's flawed by the fact that that revelation only works in English, something which, even as a kid, I quickly realized.
A potential anti-nit I considered at the time (& also considered something of a stretch) was that in Atlantean the computer designation did match the Atlantean word for Blood, hence the confusion, but for the translation to work in English the designation for the computer would have to be changed from whatever the exact translation to be to a number & letter combination that resembled the English word for Blood.
*uncrosses eyes & shakes head*
Make sense?

Chainmail
This was the letter column for Warlord.
This month letter writer Dale Armstrong was listing his must buy books one of which was ONAN.
Wha...?
Obviously he wrote CONAN but the C didn't get printed (& there is space for where it should go.)

The Secret Of Skartaris Warlord #5
The computer says that Computer B-100-D was activated within the last solar week.
Wha...?
Morgan learned Deimos had gotten the Scrolls of Blood & usurped the Theran throne in issue 2.
Issue 3 Morgan is building his army & freeing people along the way. (And Issue 12 shows a flashback to a siege of a city along the way.)
Issue 4 Morgan meets & defeats Deimos.
Even given the series premise that lack of night allows people to work longer in Skartaris it would seem to take much more time than a "solar week".
Then again the premise, at this time, is that time is screwed up in Skartaris, as we learn next issue with the revelation that Morgan has been in Skartaris for 8 years & the wonderful cobweb-covered helmet scene.

NANJAO. Morgan's magnum runs out of ammunition.
One of the few times in the series we see this happen.

"... which I'm told is somewhere in either Canada or Alaska. (Oddly enough I couldn't find out exactly where when I checked reference books that I thought would tell me.) - Keith Alan Morgan

Try this page. Though frankly, I'm not sure if it is much help or not.

Excelsior!

That was very interesting, Benn. Thanks!

The Iron Devil Warlord #7
Morgan & new companion, Mariah, arrive in Kiro to find Machiste. Dialogue indicates that Morgan didn't know the way to Shamballah (Tara's home) & they find Kiro by luck.
Issue 5 begins with Machiste saying goodbye to Morgan & Tara & riding off. Shortly after this Morgan & Tara find the shuttle which led to the surface. Now Morgan may not know the exactly where either city lay, he should at least know the general directions.

At the end a trusted Kiroan guard takes the cursed axe to be tossed into a volcano.
The cursed axe was embedded in the wall, so how did they get it out without touching it?

Also the axe is in a box, which makes sense since you don't want people touching it & getting possessed, but how did they get it in?

The Kiroan guard takes the axe out of box to toss in the volcano.
Shouldn't someone have mentioned the danger of this to him? Just toss the whole box into the volcano, why worry about the box?

The City In The Sky Warlord #8
Morgan fires his gun in this issue, however his Magnum ran out of ammo in issue 5, that same issue he ended up on the surface & didn't return till the end of issue 6. Issue 7 begins with them finding Kiro, by luck according to Morgan's dialogue.
I suppose it's possible Morgan may have picked up some ammo from the surface although it didn't look like anyone was using Magnum's that Morgan ran across.
It's also possible that Morgan may have gone back to the dead city from issue 3 & picked up some more, but that city seems like it would be much farther than Kiro or Shamballah.

Tragg is the keeper of Skyra.
Didn't Gold Key comics have a comic called Tragg & the Sky Gods around this time?

We find out that Tragg, who's a cyborg, has been freezing people to use as food. We find this out when Morgan & Machiste are sent into the freezer & the mechanical sprayer starts trying to freeze them. Thing is there is a shot of several naked people frozen standing there looking calm.
If they'd been killed, stripped then frozen they wouldn't be standing there.
If they'd been tricked into taking off their clothes & going in there to be frozen I'd expect them to have shocked looks on their faces and their arms in a position to indicate they were trying to block the freezing spray.

Lair Of The Snowbeast Warlord #9
How many shots did Morgan fire to kill the beast? The caption describes the damage caused by one .44 Magnum bullet & says Morgan fired some extra insurance, 7 shots extra insurance. This would seem to indicate he fired 8 shots. However the drawing only shows 7 shells ejected from the gun. (How many bullets did a clip for Morgan's type of gun hold anyway?)

Tower Of Fear Warlord #10
The Mask of Life is kept at the top of the Tower of Fear and those who enter have to face demons to get there.
Wouldn't it just have been simpler to destroy the thing?

Also the Mask of Life is kept at the top, in the open. Mariah used one of the anti-gravity discs that some statues were floating on to get there. However as we see in later issue there are people who can use flying beasts, devices & even some with wings of their own.
Heck, someone could just build a really big ladder and avoid all those nasty demons. So why leave the Mask of Life where someone could get to it easily?

Deimos is resurrected & has a scar on face from Morgan's deathblow. The scar runs from his left forehead across face to right cheek.
However in issue 4 the illustration of Morgan's blow seems to indicate that he actually cut Deimos' head off, we even see Deimos' collar sliced. The scar we see here is consistent with getting cut with the tip of a blade, but in issue 4 we see blood shown down near hilt, with the tip of the blade too high to have done any damage.

Trilogy Warlord #12
NNANJAO. A purple dinosaur???
What was the colorist drinking? (This was maybe 20 years before Barney.)

Holocaust Warlord #15
In issue 7 we learn that Machiste is the King of Kiro, here we find out that Tara was the Princess of Shamballah.
Seems a trifle coincidental.

Page 17, Panel 1. Most of the H from "Heart" missing.

How does the Ancient Atlantean computer know Morgan's name, rank & serial number? Is it somehow connected to the Arpanet? Actually the computer seems to know a few surface world catchphrases.

The Quest Part 1 Visions In A Crimson Eye Warlord #16
A guard refers to Tara as a Princess. Since her father is dead she should be called Queen.
Then again maybe the guard used the term he was most used to using, forgetting she was now Queen?

When did the singer known as Chaka Khan first appear? This comic is from late 1978.
I ask because I groaned when Saaba asked for the "Eye of Shakakhan", but then wondered if it was intentional or coincidental? (Needless to say the name does make it hard to take this issue seriously since the name is used over & over again.)

The Quest Part III Blood Moon Warlord #18
Tara says, "Saaba, the witch, said that we would find Deimos in a place of eternal shadow!"
Actually, Saaba said, "A place of half-light, half-shadow!"

On page 1, the dog, Shadow, is chasing what looks to be an Eohippus, which is much smaller than Shadow. On the double-page spread of pages 2 & 3, a therapod has what is apparently the same animal in its mouth, but if it is the same creature it's drawn way too big.

The alien captain, Bornaa, says, "On Stardate 2731.5".
So the captain is a Star Trek fan?

Bornaa mentions that when the second star of their world super-novaed it destroyed a billion year old civilization.
Sooooooo, the Alces Shirasi civilization began when either no, or very little, life existed on Earth? Seems unlikely.

Why have the Alces Shirasians taken up orbit inside the Earth instead of around it? It's not said how long ago the ship came to Earth although it is mentioned that they have been cross-breeding with transmutated humans for generations, so presumably the surface world wouldn't have been too technologically advanced when they arrived.

I didn't spot this nit, it was mentioned in a later letter column, but it was too good to not mention.
Morgan is being turned into a minotaur, after he gets turned back he makes a comment about doing ads for malt liquor, a reference to the Schlitz ads featuring a bull smashing through things at the time. Well, Kenneth L. Reese pointed out that since Morgan crashed in Skartaris in 1969 there would be no way for him to know about those ads.

Wolves Of The Steppes Warlord #19
In issue 16 Saaba said, Deimos was in "A place of half-light, half-shadow!"
Frankly, understanding Skartaris as he does, Morgan should have realized what that meant before this & yet we learn that Morgan & Tara have been using the flyers they got from the alien ship last issue to search all of Skartaris before finally deciding to head toward the terminator, the point of Skartaris where the curve starts to become part of the outer world. (Admittedly Skartaris should have both a northern & a southern terminator, but presumably the northern one is closer.)

Deimos' scar now goes more or less straight down his forehead and makes a right turn to cross his nose.

Green bears???

The Beast In The Tower Warlord #22
Page 8, Panel 1. Orange area on guard's hand & black girl's body.

The Children Of Ba'al Warlord #23
Page 10, Panel 1. The caption calls the inner earth, "Skartharis" instead of Skartaris.

Page 12. Morgan & the girl are running out of the City of the Orms after damaging the equipment that powers their artificial sun. Panel 1, he's holding his sword in his right hand. Panel 2 he firing his gun with his right hand. Panel 3, he's holding his sword in his right hand.
Not necessarily impossible, but you'd think he'd go with one or the other.

The Children of Ba'al turn out to be the real villains, however if they're so gentle that they don't know how to fight, how do they catch & kill their sacrifices to Ba'al?

This Sword For Hire Warlord #25
Morgan is riding around in the snowy mountains wearing his loincloth & little armor.
Okay, Mike, I know you want the guy to be macho, but come on…!

Page 8, Panel 5. Balfoosh's feet are missing from his legs.

The Challenge Warlord #26
Ashir, the thief & rogue he met last issue, turns out to be the Prince of Kaambuka.
Yeesh! Is everyone the Warlord meets secretly royalty?

Atlantis Dying Warlord #27
NNANJAO. In the Warlord's world Lancelot & D'Artagnan were real people & not just literary creations.

The Curse Of The Cobra Queen Warlord #28
The caption says that the piece of a planet is completing it's billion light year journey.
The universe is estimated to be around 25 billion years old, that would seem to indicate this rock was going a quarter of the speed of light. Not bad for a hunk of rock without motors. (Okay, maybe it encountered some convenient space warps?)

Wizard World
Wizard World was a minor back-up series featuring Mariah & Machiste thrown back in time to the age of Wizard Kings before the Atlanteans came & named the inner world Skartaris. The humorous dwarf wizard Mongo Ironhand also stars.

Somehow Mongo knows future (20th century) information, but doesn't seem to know what the immediate future holds.

Chain Mail
Letter writer N. Miller counted Morgan firing 33 rounds up to issue 22. Letter writer Steven Grey counted 32 shots.
I counted & came up with 41 shots (okay one of those shots was on a cover & might not count.)

Return Of The Gladiator Warlord #29
Page 10, Panel 2. "From whence".
Whence means "from where".

Hound From Hell
"It began with a fragment of a falling star".
Technically the meteor was said to come from a planet.

Warpath Warlord #30
War in Skartaris has to be weird. Given that the ground curves up into the horizon you'd think it would be tough for armies to stay hidden as they approach their given target, so the element of surprise would seem to be practically non-existent & yet here Morgan comes across a Theran party heading for a surprise attack on Shamballah & he & a woodsman have to warn 2 Shamballahn outposts of the attack.

Why is Morgan using the woodsman's axe to hold the bridge, when he has a sword?

KAM: Tragg is the keeper of Skyra.
Didn't Gold Key comics have a comic called Tragg & the Sky Gods around this time?

According to the Grand Comic Book Database Project, there was. The series only lasted nine issues. The first of which was published in 1975. The last in 1982(?).

"Kiro" = Cairo? Just a thought.

Excelsior!"

When did the singer known as Chaka Khan first appear? - KAM II

Chaka Khan first recorded with Rufus (famous for the hit, "Tell Me Something Good") in 1973. She released her first solo album in 1979. All this can be learned here, at All Music's website (I should also add that you may have to register to see that page.)

(Boy, I couldn't even provide that last link in my previous post as a cut and paste without getting a "too many links" message. )

Excelsior!"

Thanks, Benn.

"Kiro" = Cairo? Just a thought.
That's where I always thought he got the name from.

Either that or Mike got the name from the CBS affiliate in Seattle, Channel 7, KIRO. ;-)

Wings Over Shamballah Warlord #31
Last issue Morgan helped alert the Shamballah outposts about a Theran invasion & held off the forces until the bridge between Thera & Shamballah was destroyed. This story, at one point before the issue began, has Morgan a hundred leagues north of Shamballah.
Now either Shamballah is a hell of a long way from that bridge or this story wasn't meant to follow the previous story.

How does Morgan know that trolls as a race died out eons ago?

Land Of The Titans Warlord #32
The cover gives Shakira a different top than what she wears in the series.

Queen Amarant tells Morgan that there were only six of her kind left before he killed one.
Five men, one woman, why the heck wasn't Queen Amarant doing what she could to produce more offspring?

Page 11. The red on the Titans' bodies on this page is overwhelming, it's almost hard to see that Queen Amarant's hair & outfit are different colors.

Page 15. The woolley rhinoceros smashes into the wall of the arena, which crumbles causing Queen Amarant to fall down.
You'd think the wall would be much sturdier.

Queen Amarant is said to have died from the fall, which is odd considering that it wasn't that high, about her height.

Page 17, Panel 2. Shakira says, "I come and go as I please and give my loyalty to whom I chose".
I think the writer meant 'choose'.

Gambit Warlord #35
The last panel of last issue had Morgan leaving Wizard World & returning to Skartaris. This issue he hasn't left yet & dialogue is different.

Cute touch. Mike Grell, editor Jack C. Harris & Julius Shwartz as godlike figures with Mike & Jack playing a game that Morgan is in. Interestingly on the "wall" are three covers from the comic, one of which was this issues.
I'd have figured the since this issue shows them playing/figuring out the story that the cover for it would have been drawn later.

Caption says that Mongo told Morgan that "Whenever the sword Hellfire is drawn, it must taste blood... even if it is your own."
What he said in issue 34 was it must always taste blood.

Interlude Warlord #36
Page 6, Panel 1. Morgan says, "I've never had a woman run away from me before!"
What about Mariah in issue 15 or the woman in issue 22?

The Shape Of Things Gone By Warlord #38
Page 15. A caption misspells Deimos as "Demos".

The Book Of The Dead Warlord #41
Zarrgon Fire-eye is called Sarrgon Fire-eye in this issue.

Page 8, Panel 4. The caption reads, "Down into the fire and brimstone that spawned it plunges the Book of the Dead".
errrr... how does fire & brimstone spawn a book?
I think Mike got confused with the various Lord Of The Rings riffs he was doing in this story.

The Shape Of Things Gone By Warlord #38
How exactly did Jennifer's boat sail into Skartaris? It's a yacht, not an icebreaker.

War Warlord #42
Page 10, Panel 2. Morgan pulls an arrow out of his shoulder without breaking off the end with the feathers.
Wouldn't that just hurt more & cause more damage?

Berserk Warlord #43
Aton tells Morgan that he found the wreckage of Jennifer's boat 500 leagues from Shamballah, near the Land of Shadow (the Terminator).
Oddly enough Jennifer washed ashore 1000 leagues from Shamballah.
NNAN I just find it odd her life raft drifted 1500 miles from where the wreckage came ashore.

The Gamble Warlord #44
Morgan & Aton have to get to the top of a tower where both a jewel & a key to the locked gate of the tower rest & have to go through various obstacles to get there.
What's not explained is who the heck owns the tower & why he/she/it allows people to come & try to steal the object.

NANJAO. Morgan's gun runs out of ammo again. This time it's revealed that he buried his box of ammunition in the city where his plane crashed down. (As seen in issue 3).

At the end of issue 3 Morgan said he'd have to come back & explore these ruins sometime. Here he doesn't seem that interested in them. Well, maybe he & Mariah explored them between issues 6 & 7?

Shakira goes into the computer room & turns on the computer to see images of an unruined city.
Last time we saw it the computer had been on & not turned off.

Nightmare In Vista-Vision Warlord #45
Jennifer calls it a "saber-toothed tiger", when it's actually a saber-toothed cat, but this is a common mistake in real-life

NNAN. Aton asks Morgan why he didn't just blind the cyclops with his pistol & Morgan says he didn't think about it.
Now possibly Morgan got out of the habit of using his pistol because he knows he has limited ammo, but it does seem like he doesn't use it in a number of situations where it would be useful.

X Warlord #46
This cover features the Cyclops from last issue, while last issue's cover has elements that appear in this story.
Clearly the two got mixed up.

Deimos castle is said to be a 100 leagues from where Jennifer's boat crashed.
So why has it taken so long for Deimos' lackey (Faaldren) to take Jennifer there? Aton discovered the wreckage in issue 39 rode 500 leagues to Shamballah to tell Morgan about it in issue 43, in issue 44 they were in Batuhm, a dozen leagues north of the site, then they rode down to the wrecked city from issue 3 so Morgan could get more ammo, then they went to the colony of dwarves from issue 33 so Morgan could get his old sword, that was said to be a dozen or so leagues away & they finally get to the site in this issue.

The next two nits might be anti-nitted as all being in Morgan's head, since the stories where Morgan confronts Death could be read as hallucinations.

Morgan is making a deal with Death to bring Shakira back to life & Death says, "You serve me well. It pleases me that you shall continue for a time, but I will have my price! Ten years of your life, Morgan. Ten years off your allotted span. Will you gamble that I will not take you with your next heartbeat?"
Pretty safe gamble given you said you wanted him to continue to serve you for a while.

Death says, "From this moment forth you bear my mark as a seal of our covenant." And on Morgan's chest appears a serif X. When Morgan awakens he has 4 scratches on his chest that kinda look like a serif X, but they are gone by the next issue.

Hunter's Moon Warlord #47
Morgan says, "Well I'll be--It's a moon! A real moon!"
How can you be so sure? The Alces Shirasi spaceship looked like a real moon until you were aboard it.

Morgan guesses that the moon orbits Skartaris' sun & the polar openings in a double helix & is only seen when it's eccentric orbit takes it into the shadowy sky of the terminator.
Uhhhhhh, yeahhhhhhhhh... I lack the math skills to tear this idea apart, but I'm sure there must be nits with it.

Given that they must still be on the inside of the Earth the moon seeming to disappear over the horizon, more than once, would seem to be a nit. If it's orbiting it should get larger as it approaches then fade away into the distance.

Coincidentally enough, Morgan learns of a real moon the same issue as he meets a werewolf. (Although admittedly the girl in issue 22 seemed to be a werewolf but there seemed to be no moon to cause her transformations.)

Back In The U.S.S.R. Warlord #52
I don't care how tough Morgan is, there is no way he should be able to survive the Arctic weather with his outfit: metal boots, loincloth, metal bracelets, chain & metal shoulder pad to hold up his sword & gun belt, a metal helmet & a cloak. At the very least he should have frostbite.

Morgan realizes he's on the outer surface when the sun rises.
Doesn't the sun rise a lot slower in the Arctic regions?

The Sorceress' Apprentice Warlord #53
The new artists apparently didn't realize that Morgan had a cape last issue, since they don't draw it.

Caption says that the copter covers ground that it took Morgan days to cross before.
While days certainly make the distance covered seem more believable it makes his survival more ridiculous.

Sorceress Supreme Warlord #54
You'd think Ashiya might have spent some time figuring out a good plan of what to do if or when Morgan & company return?

When Morgan is strangling Ashiya she changes from the form of Morgan's dead wife, to the youthful appearance she normally wears to her real form of an aged hag.
Off hand the only reason I can think of for her to briefly assume her youthful form is so Morgan can recognize her since he only met her in issue 10.

Page 14, Panel 1. Jennifer has both her hands pointed at one energy tower, but magical bolts shoot out to both towers.

Conspiracy Warlord #56
Morgan wears what looks like the outfit he got from King Ashir in Kaambuka in issues 40 & 41. Except that at the end of 41 it didn't look like he had packed the outfit away for future use, so presumably this was a copy.

Double Entendre Warlord #57
This issue Councilman Praydor's name is spelled Praedor. (It'll go back to Praydor for the rest of the issues he appears in.)

Royal Flush Warlord #58
Cover. For perhaps the only time Mike draws Graemore the musician, presumably the face on the card with the lute.
However, if it was intended to be Graemore, Mike didn't bother looking at the artwork of the guys who actually drew him in the issues & went with his own mental image.
In the story Graemore has long, straight hair & a mustache, the face on the cover has short curly hair & is clean shaven.

Tinderbox Warlord #59
NANJAO. Mike DeCarlo is the best inker they've given Mike Grell.
(Bob Smith & Rodin Rodriguez would follow, although their art styles were a little too different to always work well with MG's. Vince Colletta, oddly enough was closer in style to MG, but almost everything he inked looked like Vince Colletta rather than the guy he was inking. Joe Rubinstein was the worst, his art style was way too different to work well with Mike's)

NANJAO. Praydor hires two assassins, the short skinny one wears an outfit that looks like a variation on Morgan's original Warlord outfit. The tall bulky assassin looks like Conan. Although the combination of a tall muscular guy & a short skinny guy also brings to mind Fritz Leiber's Fafrhd & the Grey Mouser. At no point are the characters named, but it seems like Mike was referencing 3 classic sword & sorcery characters here.

Death Dual! Warlord #60
NANJAO. I think this is the first time Mike ever used an exclamation point in a title. Considering how frequently exclamation points pop up in the titles of other comics, the lack of them in this series was odd.

Page 2. The short, skinny assassin's grey hat is suddenly white.

Okayyyyy, Tara has to decide which of the two people who appear to be Morgan really is him. She remembers a comment he made about a "ruler" of the outer world & instead of asking who the Sultan of Swat is, asks "Who is the King of Swing?"
While cute, in English, one wonders about the Skartaran language's ability to make that mistake.
Chances are Morgan would have used the English term "Sultan of Swat" rather than translating it & I doubt Tara would know that Sultan is a form of leader & swat would probably be a bit baffling as well.
On the other hand, maybe the mistake is because Morgan did translate the phrase into Skartaran?

Gateway To Doom Warlord Annual #1
Where exactly does this story fit into continuity? It's just Morgan & Shakira & the lack of the sword Hellfire would indicate it is somewhere between issues 46 & 50. Then however they were trying to find Jennifer, whereas here Morgan simply says they have other things to do. It could also be set at some point in the future, I suppose.

Page 19, Panel 3. Tristan says, "Ther's one thing I don't understand".
And apparently it's the correct way to spell 'There's'.

Doomgate (what a name for a city) is known as a place that captures sacrifices to their goddess Tarantis & that no captive has ever escaped. However the celebration of Tarantis is a time when entertainers & merchants come to make money.
1. ...okayyyyyyy... how do the entertainers & merchants manage to hang around close enough to know when the celebration is about to take place (no clocks & calendars in Skartaris), but far enough away to not be grabbed as the next sacrifice?
2. The place where Tarantis is fed does not appear to be in a viewable area. Admittedly while a sacrifice may be a part of the Celebration of Tarantis, it could be that the priests simply report it has happened & what this portends for the future rather than letting people watch it. Still in most stories featuring a celebration around a sacrifice viewing it happen is usually one of the features.

One Of Seven
This was a text piece talking about "events" celebrating the previous 7 years of The Warlord.
I think the poor guy who had to write it was really stretched to come up with some filler here.
It's not like anyone said, "Whoops! It's almost a year, better write something special into your story!" If something momentous happened it was coincidental.

The "events" were
1. #3. Morgan finds his plane & gets his Magnum! - The plane? Meh. The gun, yes, even if he didn't use it as much as I remembered. More important was the link of Skartaris to Atlantis which the writer didn't even mention. Also the revival of The Warlord after a 7 month hiatus while they checked sales figures, but that gap seems to be conveniently ignored by the editors these days.

2. #9. Morgan gets a new costume! - errrrrr, yeahhhhhh... trading in a stylish outfit for a loincloth, boots & helmet. I'm surprised we didn't see this look on the runways of Paris. *rolls eyes*

3. #15. Morgan & Tara reunited & the book goes monthly! - conclusion of one quest, start of another, mmm... I'll give him that one. Unfortunately it was also Mike paired with the worst inker ever.

4. #27. The revelation of Morgan's past lives. Meh. While interesting, only 2 of those lives have anything done with them. The first, a caveman who is killed by a saber-toothed cat, & the second, an important Atlantean, the rest are run through in a montage before getting to the current one, Morgan, who realizes that time cannot be changed & accepts his destiny.

5. #39. Morgan loses his winged horse, Firewing! - Ugh! Now that's a stretch! Morgan had Firewing for a total of 3 issues & it was never a major deal.

6. #51. The reprinting of First Issue Special #8! - Double ugh! Several things wrong here.
1. It was a reprint, & reprints are not really events, just ways to give a writer & artist a month-long break! The only new thing was the back-up story which was only okay.
2. The magazine was called 1st Issue Special, not First Issue Special.
3. It was not a reprint of 1st Issue Special #8, it was a reprint of Warlord #1.

When talking about Morgan's past lives it identifies one as Sergeant York of WWI.
In the actual story there is what could be a WWI soldier shown, but the only thing said about him is "Iowa farmboy who ended up in an unmarked grave in the Argonne Forest".

7. Warlord Annual #1 - How conveeeeeeeenient? Course, this is a few months early to coincide with the anniversary & while the story is fun it has no lasting repercussions or impact on the series as a whole. Heck pinpointing exactly when it takes place is problematical.

Cry Wolf! Warlord #62
Page 4, Panel 1. Shamballah is spelled "Shamballa"

The Kaash'ban Warlord #63
New penciller Dan Jurgens can't seem to realize that the Skartaran sun should be high in the sky, not low on the horizon.

Ashir says, "At irregular intervals they come forth".
Since time doesn't exist in Skartaris, how would you know that the intervals are regular or irregular?
Admittedly the idea that without the sun rising & setting there is no way to tell how much time has passed isn't true. Hourglasses & water clocks could be invented. Presumably the passage of time would be known by farmers since plants need time to grow (although without seasons the planting could be staggered so there is always a crop ready to be picked).
On the other hand, several times in the series Mike has indicated that time does not flow the same in Skartaris.
Issue 6 - Morgan discovering that he's been in Skartaris 8 years & the ending where he returns to Skartaris & finds his helmet covered in cobwebs.
Issue 38 - where Morgan is shocked to see that Aton, last seen as a boy in issue 12, which was a flashback to an event between issues 3 & 4, is now a man.
Issues 55-61 - Joshua, Morgan's lost son, appears to be, maybe, 8-10 years old here although when last seen in issue 30 was still a baby.

Page 13, Panel 6. Caption reads, "he tips his head back in a language more ancient than any of mans".
Now since Rostov is a werewolf & he's looking at some wolves one would think this means he's howling, except that his mouth appears to be closed & there is no accompanying sound effect. So is he meant to be howling or communicating telepathically?

Warlord #64 & 65
The covers of these 2 issues are mixed up.

Through The Glass Warlord #65
Grungy nitpicking. The cover says the story is called "Through The Mirror".

Wizardwar Warlord #66
The Evil One is watching the surviving wizards seal up their gold in a pyramid & he exclaims, "They're stealing it!"
Interesting. Was that a typo & he meant 'sealing' or does he believe the gold rightfully belongs to himself & their trying to keep it away is theft? (Kind of like how the government feels about taxpayer money.)

Spirit Of The Wolf Warlord #68
Page 10, Panel 3. Mikola says, "Apparently you had spoken to me, enough for him to trust me with the astonishing truth".
Should probably read, 'spoken of me enough'.

Backout Warlord #69
Jennifer, Morgan & Shakira try to return to the present through the magic mirror. Jennifer makes it okay, but Morgan & Shakira end up in Australia in the far future.
Why they ended up there is never explained.

The Outback Warlord #70
At the end of last issue the person who had the drop on Morgan & Shakira appeared masculine. This issue the person is definitely a woman.

Also last issue she was wearing a full jacket, here she's wearing a vest over a long-sleeved shirt.

It's stated that the United States discovered the polar opening to Skartaris in 1972, then sat on the secret until 2089.
I find it hard to believe that no other country could have discovered this in all that time.
Not to mention that some politician wouldn't have leaked the news at some point.

2089 is also when the outer Earth 'died' from all the dumping of nuclear & chemical waste.
Mike seemed to overlook the possibility that things would change. I think even when this story was written there were restrictions on where nuclear waste could be disposed of.

It's also laughable that an overpopulated world would come together like Dan says they did.
Then again, maybe the historians who wrote things down omitted things.

The Journey Back Warlord #71
Maybe a nit, maybe not. Morgan & Shakira take a stolen flying vehicle into the south polar opening, get shot down and end up in a city that one guy calls Kaambuks. Was this meant to be Kaambuka? If it was that could be a nit as Kaambuka is north of Shamballah & it seems unlikely that a shot down flyer could make it that far.

Morgan & Shakira find the magic mirror & jump through it.
Thing is the mirror they jumped through was sideways to the way the mirror was when they come out, but Morgan and Shakira come out in the present day right side up.

Curse Of The Unicorn Warlord #72
NNANJAO. Cary Burkett is the new writer.

Scarheart went hunting for the pelt of the white bear for his bride, but he returns with a brown pelt.

Apparently, Castle Deimos now has human guards. Odd that we didn't see them when Morgan arrived in issue 65.

Cry Plague Warlord #73
Page 11, Panel 3. Lianthe is colored Caucasian instead of the same color as Scarheart.

The Prophecy Warlord Annual #2
More of a general comment than specifically a nit here, but I hate the practice of using an Annual as a "13th issue" and a place to start or end a storyline. In some instances it just leads to filler in the regular title as they mark time till the annual, for purposes of cataloging & organizing it's a pain, & I don't think any subscription plan ever included annuals, so fans would have to go find a store that actually carried that issue. I think annuals should be for stuff that's related to the series, but wouldn't fit in the normal flow of the regular series. *gets off soapbox*

I suppose this could be subtitled, "The Origin of Morgan's Hat". ;-) Was it Gone & Forgotten who commented that when you start writing origin stories for pieces of the hero's clothing you're scraping the bottom of the barrel?

Supposedly Morgan's helmet is the same as the leader of an elite Atlantean Guard called the Sea Eagles.
Sea Eagles certainly explains the feathers, but what about the snake head?

Burkett starts making changes to Grell's Atlantis, later issues do try to explain away some of it, such as decadence of the kings of Atlantis were in the other 6 Atlantean kingdoms from the one named by Grell & the Atlantean beast changer being based on Alces Shirasi technology (whether Burkett had these explanations planned from the beginning... who knows?). However he has the Atlanteans have flying swanships which look like boats.
Now, oddly enough, when Mike Grell set a story in Ancient Atlantis we really didn't see the super-science that we saw in Skartaris, it appeared to be a Greek-style civilization set during the ice age. Presumably the really big scientific advancements took place after Atlantis destruction and some survivors landed in Skartaris.
Also the only thing we saw reminiscent of a swanship was Tinder imagining how a flying ship would look. Given that we later find out that some of Atlantis technology was based on time lost US military, you'd think a flying ship would look more aerodynamic.

Page 12, Panel 1. Krystovar says, "For the real significance is the lost in antiquity!"
Wha...? I suspect that second "the" doesn't belong there.

Lord Norrad founded New Atlantis in a great hollow between Skartaris & the surface world, with passageways to both. The passageway from Skartaris is a sea route.
For the life of me I cannot wrap my head around how New Atlantis doesn't get flooded.

Page 31, Panel 5. Morgan thinks, "The controls don't look too different from an Atlantean sled I flew once before!"
Offhand I can only think of two anti-gravity devices Morgan flew previously. The Alces Shirasi flying sled from issue 18 & the Titans' flying disc in issue 33. I don't think we saw the controls on the alien sled, but the disc control was definitely different from the sled here.

Page 35, Panel 1. Morgan's face is purple.

Home Again Home Again Warlord #74
Page 10, Panel 4. Krystovar hits ground in way that broken ribs & dislocated arm would seem likely. Morgan lands on his back on a log.

All Dreams Must Pass... Warlord #75
Last issue & this Tara rails against Morgan for always leaving her & Shamballah.
Okay, on the one hand emotional people don't use logic when arguing, but on the other...
Issue 43 - Morgan was told wreckage of his daughter's boat had been found & went off to find her.
Issue 62 - Morgan left with Rostov to find a cure for his lycanthropy.
Yeahhhhhhhhh, he has a problem with staying that one.

Doom's Mouth! Warlord #78
Page 10, Panel 1. Krystovar's cloak is white instead of brown.

Says next story is The Forever Man, actually called Paradox.

Future Trek Warlord #80
Some dialogue different in flashback.

Thief's Magic Warlord #81
Morgan is in the year 2303, but last issue when exploring a bombed city with primitive humans, they find a calendar with the 2303 date. The implication was that the bombing was a long time ago.

All The President's Men...! Warlord #83
Ashir's outfit is colored differently than it was the last few times he appeared. Given that he'd been captured & rescued from New Atlantean forces he wouldn't have had time to go find a new outfit.

Page 14. The metal seal the President picks up is bigger in panel 9 than it was in panel 4.

The Price Of Change Warlord #85
Morgan uses the time travel saucers to change history so that the nuclear missiles don't hit their targets & the devastation of 2303 is averted.
Of course, if there was no nuclear devastation then Morgan & the others wouldn't have been captured which led to the revolution in which Morgan became President & had the authority & the reason to take the time machines & change history.

Not only was the United States still around in 2303, but the nuclear war was started by the Russians.
Well, at least Burkett didn't call them the Soviet Union. ;-)

Since the time-traveling flying saucers were top secret the world assumes the ships destroying the missiles are an invasion from outer space.
Soooooooooo, mysterious craft stop missiles from destroying cities & that makes them bad guys?

Morgan crashes his flying saucer & hits the self-destruct so the Russians can't learn it's secrets.
Okayyyyyyyy, in issue 78 Morgan discovered that the flying saucers were numbered & could only be activated by a card with the same number. The card Morgan picked up had his name on it & since the saucers were parked in the cavern in the distant past Morgan's saucer would have had to survive.

The timeline, for those confused, the saucers were a US Government experiment started in the 1940s.
The saucers were launched in 2303.
They ended up in the past in the days of ancient Atlantis & were stored in the cavern where Morgan later discovered them.
Morgan, Krystovar & Shakira were in one opened by his keycard which got activated and ended up in the Atlantean past. Then they got time-tossed into the 1940s before finally ending up in 2303.
So if Morgan's saucer is destroyed, his keycard wouldn't work on any other saucer & (his keycard probably would have been destroyed with the saucer as well) so the big mystery of the keycard with his name on it never would have happened

Full Circle Warlord Annual #3
Takes Morgan a surprisingly long time to figure out where he'd seen a blood-red moon before.

This issue it's revealed that Atlantean super-science was a combination of Atlantean, Alces Shirasian & US Military tech.
Uh, yeahhhhh... on the other hand that could explain how the Shamballan computer knew various facts about Morgan in issue 15. (Not a good explanation, though.)

Page 40, Panel 7. This close up of Shakira makes it look like she is not wearing the purple dress she wore before & after this panel.

In issue 79 after accidentally activating the time travel portion of the flying saucer, Morgan, Krystovar & Shakira meet themselves. To differentiate between the two sets of characters the clothing each wears is different Morgan 2 has a black shirt on, the colors of Krystovar 2's clothes is different & Shakira 2 is wearing a pink dress.
1. No explanation of why Shakira chose to wear a dress is given.
2. The colorist made the dress purple here instead of pink like it was in issue 79.
3. The dress appears to be slightly less than contemporary style (too modest for 1984) however the setting is ancient Atlantis which has a different dress code & style.

Page 41 is a replay of pages 3-6 of issue 79. Some snipped dialogue, altered posings, & changed dialogue.

Issue 79, Page 6, Panel 6. Morgan 2 says, "Oh, you will... believe me..."
This issue, Page 41, Panel 6. Morgan 2 says, "I think I'm beginning to understand."
Since the scene is a replay of the scene from 79 the dialogue should match.

The Forever Man Warlord #86
At the end of Annual #3 Morgan, Shakira & Krystovar are returned from where they left & Morgan & Tara are reunited. This issue starts with Morgan & Tara kissing, so it would seem to be a direct follow-up from the end of the Annual, except that Shakira's violet dress is now green & Krystovar has switched back to his normally colored clothes.

In Annual #2 Krystovar made a big deal about Morgan's helmet being Lord Norrad's Sea Eagles helmet. Here we find out that the Sea Eagles based their helmet's on Morgan's.
Time loop paradox anyone?

The military men who ended up back in time in Annual #3 ended up living & dying in Atlantis of old age, except for Franklin.
The problem is that in issue 27 Morgan is reliving his past incarnations. One of them was the Atlantean scientist who came up with the method of putting sea water into the volcanoes to generate steam which allowed Atlantis to thrive while the rest of the world was suffering an ice age. Within this guy's lifetime the water had the unforseen side effect of solidifying the lava, leaving Atlantis on a thin shell which eventually collapsed, and frankly the guy didn't look that old when Atlantis sunk.

In issue 85 the mysterious ape-like creature was golden-colored, here he's brown.

Bargain With The Devil Warlord #87
Pirates from Central Casting.
Why do the pirates look more 1700/1800s than Skartaran? Didn't pirates of that era stay near the Caribbean rather than the Arctic Circle?

The mysterious ape-like creature is named... Chakka.
... besides, obviously, writer Cary Burkett, couldn't someone have explained to the editor that Land Of The Lost already had an ape-like creature named Chakka?

Morgan makes a deal with Captain Hawkins. He will pay him every month & the first payment will be in three weeks.
Mr. Burkett, what part of "Skartaris is a world without time" do you not understand?

A Dream Rekindled... Warlord #88
NNAN. Morgan says, that Hawkins had given him a contact in the port of Bakwele.
That either happened between panels of last issue or it's been over three weeks since last issue.

Page 9, Panel 1. Morgan's face is yellow.

Demons Of Days Past Warlord #90
I sold this issue shortly after I bought it because this is the issue that set The Warlord in the mainstream DC universe (the Monitor appeared). The Warlord I loved existed in his own universe & I never bought another issue of the book, not even when Mike Grell started contributing covers again, until the '92 miniseries which was actually written by Mike.
If the Warlord was a part of one of the 5 main Earths (1, 2, 4, S & X) merged together at the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths then there should have been some evidence of it.
Skartaris was not a part of Earth-1 since Superman & some other heroes had bored through the Earth at various times & never encountered it.
There was no Vietnam War on Earth-X.
Whenever Morgan made reference to things they were movie or literary references not superhero references. When he swung on a vine, or rope, he thought of Johnny Weismuller, not Batman. Superheroes were not a part of Morgan's culture.

The Ammo Tote Board
Obviously this can only list the shots seen, indicated or told fired, in the story. It's probable more shots were fired outside of the published stories.

#3 - (Gets Magnum) 2 Shots
#4 - 3 Shots
#5 - 2 Shots (Gun out of ammo)
#8 - 5 Shots
#9 - 8 Shots
#11 - 1 Shot
#12 - 4 or 5 Shots (1 shot is actually on the cover which may be just symbolic)
#13 - 2 Shots
#15 - 3 Shots
#16 - 5 Shots
#18 - 3 Shots
#21 - 1 Shot
#22 - 1 Shot
#23 - 2 Shots
#25 - 1 Shot
#26 - 2 Shots
#27 - 1 Shot
#28 - 1 Shot
#31 - 4 Shots
#33 - 1 Shot
#35 - 1 Shot
#41 - 1 Shot
#43 - 1 Shot
#44 - 4 Shots (Out of ammo, picks up some more)
#46 - 1 Shot
#48 - 3 Shots
#49 - 1 Shot
#50 - 3 Shots
#52 - 11 or 13 Shots (He fires 6 shots, then reloads, we then see a panel of him firing 5 shots & the next panel is a closeup of 2 shots hitting the target)
#57 - 1 Shot
#60 - 1 Shot
#66 - 1 Shot
#69 - 1 Shot
#73 - 8 Shots (empties gun)
#87 - 1 Shot

Annuals
#1 - 2 Shots
#2 - 4 Shots (ammo is low)
#3 - 6 Shots

By my count that's 103 or 106 shots

Warlord Miniseries 1992
Actually the miniseries was simply called Warlord which can be confusing if you simply refer to it by title & issue number like I do.

While it was great to have the real Warlord back in action, the miniseries was disappointing. The art was not done by Mike Grell & the story was more of a retelling of who the Warlord was than simply a new story with a new villain. It has some great moments, but also has that flavor of reheated leftovers.

Ballad Part 1 of 6 Kilt Him A B'ar Warlord #1
Tinder's hair is orange instead of red.

Page 9, Panel 3. The colorist made Deimos' outfit dark purple & red. (Actually coloring errors is a big problem in this miniseries.)

Page 16, Panel 1. The scar on Deimos' face is the wrong way.

Page 17, Panel 2. The first of many scenes where the Warlord is shown in a type of outfit he never wore in the periods when the flashbacks are supposed to take place.

Earlier Petrus* said he wasn't there with Morgan at the beginning, but then it turns out he was with Morgan before the battle of Thera.
Huh?
Okay, admittedly there were more battles than the 2 shown in issues 3 & 12, but just how many cities were there between Shebal's gladiatorial training camp & Thera? Considering the Great Desert was between them, I shouldn't think that many. Even Deimos was surprised at how soon Morgan reached Thera, implying great speed.

* The two main characters of this miniseries are Tinder, who is now an adult minstrel, & Petrus, an old warrior who fought with Morgan, although it is not until issue 3 when they actually get named.
Also when I first read this I thought the twist would turn out to be that Petrus was really Morgan, just bald, missing an eye & leg. Would have been a nice idea, but since there was the possibility that if the miniseries was popular a new series could follow... not really likely. Still it's hard not to see that this could be an aged Morgan.

Before the battle of Thera, Morgan supposedly showed Petrus his plane & the computer in the ruined city from issue 3 & tells him that Skartaris was settled by Atlanteans.
Except that Morgan left the ruined city without learning of the computer & he didn't find out about the Atlantean connection himself until the issue after the Battle of Thera.

Ballad Part 2 Warlord #2
Tinder's hair is blonde instead of last issue's orange or the original series' red.

NNAN. Jennifer's outfit is red instead of green like on the cover or the original series.
On the one hand it is nice when characters don't wear the same outfits all the time, but since it is drawn like it is supposed to be the same outfit, I suspect the colorist goofed up once again. (Doesn't DC have copies of old issues that the colorist could have looked these things up in?)

Ballad Part III Warlord #3
A flashback to before issue 15 shows Machiste & Mariah talking about her love for Morgan, something that only happened in the first few pages of 15.
Then again it is a flashback...

Outfits are also wrong.
Couldn't the artist have checked some references???

Deimos is back.
Why is that a nit? Because back in issue 52 there was an author's note about the fate of Deimos that read, "He's dead, gang -- Yep, guess who's not coming back. -- M.G."
Okay it makes sense given the flashback nature of the miniseries, but is somewhat disappointing as well.

Ballad Part IV Warlord #4
Mariah's flashback has the wrong costume.

Mariah's speech indicates that Morgan never knew she loved him.
Technically he did, but she had run out of the room by then.

In the post-Grell years there was a story where Tara got killed. Tinder's reaction at Tara being alive & her dismissal of it as just a story is the only reference to post-Grell Warlord stories.

Tara says that every time Morgan returns she breaks his nose.
Well, that ignores another post-Grell story.

Earlier Deimos said that he would turn the sun red, but on the final page it turns white. The next two issues it's red.

Says the next issue is called Ransom!, but it's the unimaginitive Ballad Part V.

Ballad Part V Warlord #5
Shakira is colored brown instead of her usual caucasian coloring.

Morgan says everytime he comes home Tara breaks his nose.
See nit explanation in previous issue.

Ballad Part VI Warlord #6
Page 16, Panel 1. A RED flag of truce???

The Hellfire stone is colored red instead of green & it's missing the break line that should be there.

Warlord #4
Missed this when I read the isue & only noticed it when reading the reprint in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #10.

Tara says to Deimos, "The hour of your death is upon you!"
Hour? In timeless Skartaris?

The Deimos Saga DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #10
Forgot I had this. A 1981 "100 page digest" that takes pages & panels from various issues of The Warlord to retell the story of Deimos versus The Warlord.

page 4. The panel reproduced was apparently a little short as someone added in some artwork to fill it out. One mistake that really becomes apparent when you compare it to the original is that a Thera soldier's cape becomes a 'skirt' which kinda screws up how the guy's body is designed.

There are a number of small rewrites in the story. Some necesitated by removing panels & even pages, but some are just inexplicable. When reprinting the ending of issue four they take out the ending of a caption from the second to last panel & add a caption to the last one & spell out explicity about the Scroll of Blood, when they could have just left it as is.

Page 25, Panel 1. Caption reads, "A number of days following the liberation of Thera".
A number of days???
Off-hand I don't see much point to this minor rewrite on the caption.

The events of issue 6 & the early part of 7 are mostly handled in some panels & captions giving a summary of the most important parts. This comes off a little clunky in terms of story-telling, although I suppose the person putting this together (editor Laurie Sutton?) didn't feel they had much choice.

By cutting the scene of Morgan & Mariah getting captured Morgan & Mariah's entrance into the Kiro palace seems odd as there would be no reason for them to inquire about Machiste there.

Also cutting some of the scene about Machiste finding the cursed axe & the scene of him almost killing the serving girl, Morgan comes off as a bit self-righteous belting Machiste & giving him a speech when all Machiste has really done here is said he likes the power.

Not really nits, but what the heck...

Page 3 ........ = Cover of Issue 29
Page 4 ........ = Issue 3, Page 1
Pages 5 & 6 . = Issue 3, Pages 4 & 5
Page 7 ........ = Issue 3, Page 8
Pages 8 & 9 . = Issue 3, Pages 6 & 7
Page 10 ...... = Issue 4, Page 1, Panels 2, 3 & 4
Pages 11 - 24 = Issue 4, Pages 4 - 17
Page 25 ....... = Issue 5, Page 1
Pages 26 - 31 = Issue 5, Pages 4 - 9
Page 32 ....... = Issue 5, Page 14, Panels 1 & 5; Page 15, Panels 3 & 4
Page 33 ....... = Issue 6, Page 1, Panels 1 & 3; Page 4, Panel 4
Page 34 ....... = Issue 6, Page 4, Panels 2 & 5; Page 6, Panel 2; Page 8, Panel 4; Page 9, Panel 4
Page 35 ....... = Issue 6, Page 13, Panel 7; Page 15, Panels 1, 2 & 5
Page 36 ....... = Issue 6, Page 16, Panel 2; Page 17, Panels 2 - 4
Page 37 ....... = Issue 7, Page 1, Panel 1; Page 6, Panel 5; Page 7, Panels 5 - 7
Page 38 ....... = Issue 7, Page 9, Panels 1 & 3 (with dialogue from Panel 2 added to Panel 1)
Page 39 ....... = Issue 7, Page 10, Panel 1; Page 11, Panels 4 & 5; Page 12, Panels 1 & 2
Page 40 ....... = Issue 7, Page 13, Panels 1 - 4; Page 14, Panel 4
Pages 41 & 42 = Issue 7 Pages 15 & 16
Page 43 ....... = Issue 7, Page 17, Panel 1 - 3 (final panel may be new drawing)
Pages 44 & 45 = Issue 10, Pages 16 & 17
Page 46 ....... = Issue 15, Page 1
Page 47 ....... = Issue 15, Page 5, Panels 3 & 1 (with some dialogue from Panel 2), Closeup of Shamballah from Page 2
Pages 48 - 64 = Issue 15, Pages 9 - 25
Page 65 ....... = Issue 19, Page 2
Pages 66 & 67 = Issue 19, Pages 4 & 5
Page 68 ....... = Issue 19, Page 6, Panels 1 - 3; Issue 20, Page 4, Panel 1 (cropped)
Page 69 ....... = Issue 20, Page 4, Panels 2 - 5
Pages 70 & 71 = Issue 20, Pages 5 & 6
Page 72 ....... = Issue 20, Page 1, Panels 2 - 4; Page 7, Panels 1 & 2
Page 73 ....... = Issue 20, Page 7, Panel 3
Pages 74 - 83 = Issue 20, Pages 8 - 17
Pages 84 - 86 = Issue 21, Pages 4 - 6
Pages 87 - 96 = Issue 21, Pages 8 - 17
Page 97 ....... = Cover of Issue 19

Saga Chapter 1 Warlord #1 (2009) reprinted in Warlord: The Saga
Some mountain climbers in Tibet find a frozen deinonychus in a mountain cave, then they chopped the head off & somehow got it out of the country & back to the states without anyone finding out.
Riiiiiiiiiight...

Saga Part 6 Death From Above Warlord #6 (2009) reprinted in Warlord: The Saga
Page 7, Panel 5. A Theran soldier gets hit by a flung boulder & the way the artist showed the body being ripped apart looks laughable.

Warlord #2 (2009)
Didn't notice it the first time I read it, but this time I realized that the flashback to Deimos being revived in issue 10 of the original series features a new design for the Mask of Life.
The artist should have used the old look for consistency.

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Ammo Tote Board

NANJAO. While Morgan shows his Magnum & even acts like it is loaded, I couldn't spot in the first 6 issues of the new series one instance of him firing it.

On the other hand, using an Atlantean travel system to get there, he does raid a Chinese army base of guns, ammo & explosives. Whether any of that ammo would fit his Magnum, I couldn't say.

1st Issue Special
Page 1. A pterosaur in the background was given bat-like wings instead of pterosaur type wings.