20th Century Sword & Sorcery Characters: Cappen Varra, created by Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson’s (1926-2001) entry at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database runs to hundreds of novels, stories, and poems. His contributions to science fiction and fantasy are nearly without parallel. His work earned three Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and many others. He was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1997 and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2000. His work was heavily influenced by his knowledge of physics and by his mastery of the sagas and epic poetry of Scandinavia (he was of Danish descent).

His main contributions to sword and sorcery are no doubt the novels The Broken Sword and Three Hearts and Three Lions. He also, however, wrote extensively at shorter lengths, and among those many stories are the three tales of Cappen Varra. The wandering bard and fencer is probably best known from Anderson’s contribution to the first volume of the popular Thieves’ World shared world series in 1979, but the character actually debuted over twenty years earlier in the pages of Fantastic Universe, then reappeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction over twenty years later. Cappen Varra is memorable for his courage, which is largely dependent on a protective amulet which may or may not actually be efficacious, and his encounters with powerful women—a troll-wife, an amanuensis, and a goddess.

Anderson was capable of striking imagery and beautiful prose. Here is the opening paragraph of the final Cappen Varra story, “The Lady of the Winds.”

“Southward the mountains lifted to make a wall across a heaven still hard and blue. Snow whitened their peaks and dappled the slopes below. Even  this far under the pass, patches of it lay on sere grass, among strewn boulders—too early in the season, fatally too early. Dry motes blew off in glittery streaks, born on a wind that whittered and whirled. Its chill searched deep. Westward, clouds were piling up higher than the heights they shrouded, full of darkness and further storm.”

“The Valor of Cappen Varra” | Fantastic Universe vol. 7, # 1, ed. Hans Stefan Santesson, January 1957 | short story

“The Gate of the Flying Knives”  | Thieves’ World, ed. Robert Asprin, Ace Books, 1979 | novella

“The Lady of the Winds”  | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, vol. 101, #s 4 & 5, Whole # 600, ed. Gordon Van Gelder, October/November 2001 | novelette

Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry

Wikipedia entry

Cappen Varra article at Dark Worlds Quarterly

Detail from Thieves' World cover by Rowena Morrill

Cover of Fantastic Universe by Hannes Bok

entry by Christopher Rowe

20th Century Sword & Sorcery Characters: Arcana, created by Janet Fox

Janet Fox (1940-2009) was a Kansan who wrote dozens of short stories and poems spanning five decades, beginning her career with the short story “Just for Kicks” in in the November 1966 issue of the

highly regarded small press magazine/fanzine Riverside Quarterly. A 2004 collection, Not in Kansas, appears to have been her final publication. There was a poem, “The Timeline Murders,” published posthumously in the 2021 issue of Startling Stories. She edited a fanzine, Scavenger’s Newsletter, from 1985 to 2000, and wrote the final five novels of the Scorpio series for Ace Books in the early 1990s.

She wrote two series characters. The listing below consists of the three stories that describe the career—from a relatively new spellcaster to a powerful mistress of demons—of the witch Arcana. Of particular interest is Arcana’s version of what might be called “the Conan romance phenomenon,” in that she takes up a different male companion in each story.

 

“A Witch in Time”  |  Fantastic Stories vol. 22, #6, ed. Ted White, September 1973  |  short story |  reprinted in the author's collection, A Witches Dozen, W. Paul Ganley/Wildside Press, 2003

 

“She-Bear”  |   Fantastic Stories vol. 23, #2, ed. Ted White, January 1974  |  short story  |  never reprinted

 

“Demon and Demoiselle”  |   Fantastic Stories vol. 27, #3, ed. Ted White, October 1978  |  novelette |  reprinted in the author's collection, A Witches Dozen, W. Paul Ganley/Wildside Press, 2003

Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base entry

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry

Wikipedia entry

Memorial blog post by Todd Mason

Entry by Christopher Rowe

Special thanks to Mike Palumbo for locating the author's photo

20th Century Sword & Sorcery Characters: Jaisel, created by Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (1945-2017) hardly needs any introduction. She was a winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards and was named a Grand Master by the World Horror Convention in 2009. Among her 100+ novels and short stories, she wrote a number of sword & sorcery tales, including a pair that tell the story of the swordswoman Jaisel. They first appeared in the two volumes of Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s essential Amazons anthologies.

Jaisel’s ancestry can be productively traced to Mary Shelley (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus), Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Rappaccini's Daughter”) and J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King), all focused through the prism of Lee’s own extraordinary imagination.

“Northern Chess”  | Amazons!, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, 1979 | short story

“Southern Lights”  | Amazons II, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, 1982 | short story

Internet Speculative Data Base entry

Encyclopedia of Fantasy entry

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry

Wikipedia entry

Both of these stories, along with fourteen other of Lee's sword & sorcery stories, are collected in The Empress of Dreams, published by DMR Books

Entry by Christopher Rowe

20th Century Sword & Sorcery Characters: Thula, created by Pat McIntosh

Pat McIntosh is a Scottish writer best known for a series of mystery novels featuring the characters Gilbert and Alas Cunningham. Years before she began that series, however, she wrote five short stories recounting the adventures of the swordswoman Thula, who was a sort of warrior-nun. They remain of interest today, as McIntosh managed to limn a world with some detail within a relatively small word count, and the characterization of Thula, her allies, and her enemies, is quite adroit. While the first three stories appeared in a fanzine called Anduril (then the official organ of the Tolkien Society) they were reprinted by Lin Carter in the first three volumes of his Year’s Best Fantasy Stories (six volumes, DAW Books, 1975-1980). Two more stories of Thula were specifically commissioned by Carter for volumes 4 and 5. The first story in the series, “Falcon’s Mate,” was eventually reprinted in Dragons and Warrior Daughters: Fantasy Stories by Women Writers (Lion Tracks, ed. Jessica Yates, 1989) The Thula stories have never been collected, and only “Falcon’s Mate” has been reprinted outside of Carter’s series.

 

"Falcon’s Mate” | Anduril #4, ed. John Martin, July 1974 | short story | Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories, DAW Books, ed. Lin Carter, DAW Books 1975

 

“Cry Wolf”  | Anduril #6, ed. John Martin, August 1976 | short story | Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories #2, ed. Lin Carter, 1976

 

“Ring of Black Stone”  | Anduril #5, ed. John Martin, July 1975 | short story | Reprinted in TheYear’s Best Fantasy Stories #3, DAW Books, ed. Lin Carter, 1977

 

“The Cloak of Dreams”  | The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories #4, DAW Books, ed. Lin Carter, 1978 |  short story

 

“Child of Air”  | The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories #5, DAW Books, ed. Lin Carter, 1980 |  short story

 

 

Biographical Sketch

Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry

Wikipedia entry

 —Entry by Christopher Rowe

Savage Realms Monthly, May 2024 (#28)

The twenty-eight issue of Savage Realms Monthly bears a cover date of May 2024, a first edition notice of April 2024, and was released on Amazon on 3rd June, 2024. It contains the usual three stories offered by SRM, along with a brief uncredited editor’s introduction and interviews with the authors of each piece. 

First up is “Red Trail of Vengeance,” by the experienced sword & sorcery author Steve Dilks. Dilks is no stranger to the pages of SRM, having appeared in the magazine’s very first issue, which bore the cover date of January 2021. “Red Trail of Vengeance” is the latest entry in the author’s series of stories features a colossal Black man named Bohun, “once a champion warrior of Damzullah.” One of the previous stories appeared in the inaugural issue of SRM, though that tale, “Festival of the Bull,” was a reprint from the sole issue of Swords of Adventure, which appeared in November 2018.

 

Sword & sorcery readers often take comfort in familiarity, and the plot here certainly offers that. If anyone ever develops a taxonomic catalogue of sword & sorcery tales along the lines of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index for folklore, there will surely be an entry for “hero makes an enemy/some business with a nigh-fatal desert crossing/hero defeats enemy.” Good writers will always ring at least a few changes, of course, as Dilks does here, but for all the merits of the
piece—the set piece battles are particularly fine, as is an excellent scene of an escape from a well—the author does not escape or subvert readerly expectations. Still, it is probably the rare reader of Savage Realms Monthly who comes to the magazine looking for wild innovation, and Dillks’ latest story of Bohun (the individual pieces will be collected next month in Bohun: The Complete Savage Adventures), while it doesn’t offer such—neither is there any whiff of the “sorcery” half of the equation—does put the writer’s considerable talents for action, pace, and characterization on display.

 

In contrast to Dilks, Matthew McConkey is a newcomer to Savage Realms Monthly, and according to his author interview, this is just his third published story. That surprised me, because this is a very accomplished piece. Written in the first person, “Last Sigh of the Sea,” tells the story of a patricide outcast from a high mountain region fallen far into the service of a lowland king, and of the various forms of sacrifices he has made and makes. The story has a classic fairy tale structure—there’s an old witch woman who is in fact not really that old, but more to the point the entire piece is built around thematic and even literal plot repetitions in sequences of threes—but with a definite sword & sorcery sensibility. I was genuinely impressed by the author’s narrative voice and prose style, both of which struck me as very well-developed and mature, whether for a new writer or no. The “Old Powers” invoked by an outland king are straight out of, by turn, the Gospel of Matthew, Macbeth, and any number of classic weird sea tales, but the particularities are striking, the differences imaginatively rendered. This is one of the best stories I’ve read in any issue of Savage Realms Monthly.

 

Alas, “Last of the Star-Crossed Wizards,” by the delightfully named Jonathan A. DeLaughter, falls very far short of the marks set by McConkey and Dilks. If I was feeling particularly ungenerous, I would simply summarize the story as follows and be done with it: a Dungeons & Dragons party—complete with a barbarian, a fighter, and a spell caster—uses a deus ex Cthulhu to overcome a cliched threat. There’s a bit more here than that, thankfully, but nothing to particularly recommend the piece. With its sea of familiar proper nouns (familiar in their mood if not in their particulars), descriptions of magical effects easily recognizable from table top and video role-playing games (in some cases, the names have not even been changed to protect the innocent!), and the appearance of a sort of mini-Cthulhu which has any potential cosmic horror rendered inert by its spouting of painfully portentous dialogue, this story simply isn’t up to the standards established by the other two in this issue.

 

Still, the magazine is worth the price ($9.99 for print, $2.99 for Kindle, “free” for Kindle Unlimited subscribers, all exclusive to Amazon) for the McConkey alone.

The Complete Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

This is what I believe to be the most accurate listing available online of all the published Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories written by Fritz Leiber. It also includes a vignette written by Harry Otto Fischer—the man who created the characters—and a fragment by Leiber that was posthumously published in 1997. At the end, I’ve listed the estate approved novel and two state approved short stories written by other hands. Note that I have not included information on the poem or poems published variously as “The Grey Mouser” and “The Gray Mouser,” owing to bibliographical complexity. A later post will consist of a variorum of this piece or these pieces.

 

I very strongly believe that series stories should be read in the order of composition when known, and in order of publication when not. There are several reasons for this, and I’ll probably post about those reasons at some point. This listing uses order of publication, though there is more information about order of composition for the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series available to researchers than there is for many other series characters. It must be said, however, that the ultimate “internal chronological ordering” of the stories, as published in seven collections published between 1968 and 1988, was set by Leiber himself, which I suppose makes a difference. Even there, though, those seven books were not released in the volume order in which they are now offered (though the modern order was Leiber’s preferred reading order).

 

You will find forty-four entries in what follows. There are forty pieces by Leiber: twenty short stories, ten novelettes, eight novellas, one fragment, and one novel. Note that some of what are listed as short stories, among them those written for the collections Swords against Wizardry, Swords in the Mist, and Swords Against Death, are very brief indeed, to the point of more properly being considered vignettes, though I have never seen them indexed as such. Those in the “Swords” books were written specifically to provide “connective tissue” between previously published stories in the collections, which, as has been said, was Leiber’s attempt to have the stories published in what he wished to present as internal chronological order.

 

Each entry lists the piece by title, then by the publication in which the piece first appeared with supplemental information as seemed appropriate, then by listed date of publication. Also provided is the length or form of each piece (short story, novelette, etc) and then which of the seven “Swords” books collects them, if any. Finally, many of the entries include a notes section, detailing some of the composition and publishing complexities specific to that item.

 

After the listing of individual pieces, I’ve listed the seven “Swords” collections twice. The first list details the order in which the books were originally published, and the second list provides the author’s preferred order. Modern reprints universally offer the seven books in this last order.

 

I took the information I needed to generate this list from four main sources, each of which have their merits and deficiencies. First, I used the original publications where possible, usually in digital facsimile. Many of the magazine appearances of “the Twain,” especially the earliest, are available as pdfs downloadable from the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction pages of the Luminist Archive of Periodicals. Second, I used the Internet Speculative Database’s bibliographical entry for Fritz Leiber, with its sublisting of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories. Next, I used the incalculably valuable Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Magazine Index, at which I found no ordering errors, but which lists only those stories that appeared in periodicals. Finally, and no less valuable than the two websites just listed, was the “Bibliography of Newhon Sources” chapter of the Judges Guide to Newhon, published by the current holders of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tabletop roleplaying game license, Goodman Games.

 

[I here note, with no small degree of frustration, that the linking functionality of blogspot does not seem to be working, or at least I can’t make it work. Search engines should be able to find all the mentioned sources easily enough.]

 

I originally encountered Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in the “Swords” series of Ace Paperbacks in the 1980s (so, before the release of the last volume, which I only recently read for the first time). Those seven books are now available in print on demand and electronic versions from Open Road Media. Note that the Opern Road editions do not include the valuable author introductions Leiber provided for the originals.

 

My preferred reading copies of the books are those produced by Centipede Press, who, in 2023, published the seventh book. These were collectible, limited run editions and are now out of print. I recommend finding them on the secondary market, though some may find them prohibitively expensive. I believe the abundant apparatus and gorgeous design and illustrations make them worth it to an afficionado (and indeed, some of the listed material is now only available in this set). Eighth and ninth volumes are forthcoming and will round out the Centipede Press run. They will consist of the estate approved pastiche novel and a book of art.

 

So, to it.

 

 

1)    “Two Sought Adventure” |  Unknown, vol. 1, # 6, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.  |  August 1938 |  novelette |  Swords Against Death |   This was retitled “Jewels in the Forest” when first reprinted in Leiber’s 1957 Gnome Press Fafhrd and Gray Mouser collection, Two Sought Adventure, and has appeared under that title in all subsequent reprints.

2)    “The Bleak Shore”  |  Unknown, vol. 4, # 3, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. |  November 1940 |  short story |  Swords Against Death

3)    “The Howling Tower”  |  Unknown, vol. 5, # 1, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. |  June 1941 |  short story |  Swords Against Death

4)    “The Sunken Land”  |  Unknown Worlds, vol. 5, # 5, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. |  February 1942 |  short story |  Swords Against Death

5)    “Thieves’ House”  |  Unknown Worlds, vol. 6, # 5, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. |  February 1943 |  novelette |  Swords Against Death

6)    Adept’s Gambit |  Night’s Black Agents, collection, Arkham House |  January 1947 |  novella |  Swords in the Mist |  This was the first Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story written, having been completed in 1936. It was initially published in Leiber’s first book, then did not appear again until it was reprinted in the May 1964 issue of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, vol. 13, # 5, ed. Cele Goldsmith.

7)    “Dark Vengeance”  |  Suspense Magazine, vol. 1, # 3, ed. Theodore Irwin |  Fall 1951 |  novelette |  Swords Against Death |  This was retitled “Claws from the Night” when first reprinted in Leiber’s 1957 Gnome Press Fafhrd and Gray Mouser collection, Two Sought Adventure; it has appeared under that title in all subsequent reprints.

8)    “The Seven Black Priests”  |  Other Worlds, vol. 5, # 5, whole # 29, ed. Bea Mahaffey and Ray Palmer |  May 1953 |  novelette |  Swords Against Death

9)    “Induction”  |  Two Sought Adventure, collection, Gnome Press |  January 1957 |  short story |  Swords and Deviltry

10) “Lean Times in Lankhmar”  |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 8, # 11, ed. Cele Goldsmith |  November 1959 |  novelette |  Swords in the Mist |  The issue of Fantastic Science Fiction Stories in which this story appeared was a special “all Fritz Leiber” issue.

11) “When the Sea King’s Away”  |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 9, # 5, ed. Cele Goldsmith |  May 1960 |  novelette |  Swords in the Mist

12) Scylla’s Daughter |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 10, # 5, ed. Cele Goldsmith |  May 1961 |  novella |  none |  This novella was begun as “The Tale of the Grain Ships” in 1936 but set aside. It has only been reprinted twice, in anthologies in 1986 and in 1997, but never appeared in any Leiber-specific collection, having been incorporated into the 1968 novel, The Swords of Lankhmar.

13) “The Unholy Grail”  |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 11, # 10, ed. Cele Goldsmith |  October 1962 |  novelette |  Swords and Deviltry

14) “The Cloud of Hate”  |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 12, # 5, ed. Cele Goldsmith |  May 1963 |  short story |  Swords in the Mist

15) “Bazaar of the Bizarre”  |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 12, # 8, ed. Cele Goldsmith |  August 1963 |  novelette |  Swords Against Death

16) The Lords of Quarmall |  Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, vol. 13, #s 1 & 2, both ed. Cele Goldsmith |  January 1964 and February 1964 (serial) |  novella |  Swords Against Wizardry |  This must be considered as co-authored with character creator Harry Fischer, who wrote 10,000 words of the piece in 1936.

17) Stardock |  Fantastic, vol. 15, # 1, ed. Joseph Ross |  September 1965 |  novella |  Swords Against Wizardry

18) The Swords of Lankhmar |  Ace Books |  January 1968 |  novel |  eponymous

19) “In the Witch’s Tent”  |  Swords Against Wizardry |  July 1968 |  short story |  Swords Against Wizardry

20) “The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar”  |  Swords Against Wizardry |  July 1968 |  short story |  Swords Against Wizardry

21) “Their Mistress the Sea”  |  Swords in the Mist |  September 1968 |  short story |  Swords in the Mist

22) “The Wrong Branch”  |  Swords in the Mist |  September 1968 |  short story |  Swords in the Mist

23) The Snow Women |  Fantastic, vol. 19, # 4, ed. Ted White |  April 1970 |  novella |  Swords and Deviltry

24) Ill Met in Lankhmar |  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, vol. 38, # 4, whole # 227 |  April 1970 |  novella |  Swords and Deviltry

25) “The Circle Curse”  |  Swords Against Death |  July 1970 |  short story |  Swords Against Death

26) “The Price of Pain-Ease”  |  Swords Against Death |  July 1970 |  short story |  Swords Against Death

27) “The Sadness of the Executioner”  |  Flashing Swords! #1, anthology, ed. Lin Carter, Nelson Doubleday |  April 1973 |  short story |  Swords and Ice Magic

28) “Trapped in the Shadowland”  |  Fantastic, vol. 23, # 1, ed. Ted White |  November 1973 |  short story |  Swords and Ice Magic

29) “The Bait”  |  Whispers, vol. 1, # 2, ed. Stuart David Schiff |  December 1973 |  short story |  Swords and Ice Magic

30) “Beauty and the Beasts”  |  The Book of Fritz Leiber, collection, DAW Books |  January 1974 |  short story |  Swords and Ice Magic

31) “Under the Thumbs of the Gods”  |  Fantastic, vol. 24, # 3, ed. Ted White |  April 1975 |  short story |  Swords and Ice Magic

32) “Trapped in the Sea of Stars”  |  The Second Book of Fritz Leiber, collection, DAW Books |  September 1975 |  short story |  Swords and Ice Magic

33) “The Frost Monstreme”  |  Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards, anthology, ed. Lin Carter, Dell |  August 1976 |  novelette |  Swords and Ice Magic

34) Rime Isle |  Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, vol. 1, #s 1 & 2, ed. David G. Hartwell |  May 1977 and July 1977 (serial) |  novella |  Swords and Ice Magic

35) “Sea Magic”  |  The Dragon Magazine, vol. 2, # 5, whole # 11, ed. Timothy J. Kask |  December 1977 |  short story |  The Knight and Knave of Swords

36) “The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser”  |  The Dragon Magazine, vol. 3, # 4, whole # 18, ed. Timothy J. Kask |  September 1978 |  vignette |  This brief piece was written by Harry Fischer. Its only subsequent appearance has been its reprinting in the Centipede Press Swords and Deviltry.

37)  “The Mer She”  |  Heroes and Horrors, collection, Whispers Press |  December 1978 |  novelette |  The Knight and Knave of Swords

38) The Curse of the Smalls and Stars |  Heroic Visions, anthology, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ace Fantasy Books |  March 1983 |  novella |  The Knight and Knave of Swords

39) “The Mouser Goes Below”  |  Whispers, vol. 6, #s 3 & 4, whole #s 23 and 24, ed. Stuart David Schiff |  October 1987 |  short story |  This was combined with “Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet” when reprinted under this title in The Knight and Knave of Swords.

40) “Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet”  |  Terry’s Universe, collection, ed. Beth Meacham, Tor |  June 1988 |  short story |  This was combined with “The Mouser Goes Below” into “The Mouser Goes Below” in The Knight and Knave of Swords.

41) “The Tale of the Grain Ships: A Fragment”  |  The New York Review of Science Fiction, ed. Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell, & Kevin J. Maroney  |  May 1997 |  fragment |  This was reprinted in a collection of Leiber ephemera and rarities in 2010 and is otherwise only in the Centipede Press The Swords of Lankhmar.

42) Pastiche: Swords Against the Shadowland |  White Wolf Publishing |  August 1998 |  novel |  none |  This is an estate approved pastiche novel by Robin Wayne Bailey.

43) Pastiche: “Guilty Creatures”  |  Tales From the Magician’s Skull #6 |  July 2021 |  short story |  none |  This is an estate approved pastiche short story by Nathan Long.

44) Pastiche: “Pawns’ Gambit”  |  Tales From the Magician’s Skull #9 |  January 2023 |  short story |  none |  This is an estate approved pastiche short story by Nathan Long.

 

The “Swords” Collections in Order of Initial Publication

 

1)    The Swords of Lankhmar (Vol. 5), January 1968

2)    Swords Against Wizardry (Vol. 4), July 1968

3)    Swords in the Mist (Vol. 3), September 1968

4)    Swords and Deviltry (Vol. 1), May 1970

5)    Swords Against Death (Vol. 2), July 1970

6)    Swords and Ice Magic (Vol. 6), July 1977

7)    The Knight and Knave of Swords (Vol. 7), December 1988

 

The “Swords” Collections in the Author’s Preferred Reading Order

 

1)    Swords and Deviltry (Vol. 1), May 1970

2)    Swords Against Death (Vol. 2), July 1970

3)    Swords in the Mist (Vol. 3), September 1968

4)    Swords Against Wizardry (Vol. 4), July 1968

5)    The Swords of Lankhmar (Vol. 5), January 1968

6)    Swords and Ice Magic (Vol. 6), July 1977

7)    The Knight and Knave of Swords (Vol. 7), December 1988