Through the history of mankind, the times that are most recorded in mythology and song are those of the great deeds and fantastic adventures. Such a time was the Hyborean Age. Such a tale is the story of 'Conan The Barbarian'.

Cimmeran Conan is captured as a child after his parents' savage murder by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom, head also of the snake-cult of Set. Fifteen years of agony, first chained to the Wheel Of Pain grinding grain and then enslaved as a pit fighter, forge a magnificent body and indominitable spirit. Freed miraculously one day by his owner, Conan, with his companions Subotai the Mongol and Valeria the Queen of Thieves, sets forth upon his quest to learn "the riddle of steel" which, his father has prophesied, will confer ultimate power; and to kill the arch-villian Thulsa Doom…