CONAN kills a vulture with his teeth

Despite having been nailed to a piece of wood, CONAN is no push over. He has been left unguarded so the vultures will come and pick him apart while he still lives, but CONAN is having none of it. He can see a vulture aproaching, and gives it a surprise.

CONAN drew his head back as far as he could, waiting with terrible patience. The vulture swept in with a swift roar of wings. It's beak flashed down, ripping the skin CONAN's chin as he jerked his head aside; then before the bird could flash away, CONAN's head lunged forward on his mighty neck muscles, and his teeth, snapping like those of a wolf, locked on the bare, wattled neck.
Instantly the vulture exploded into squawking flapping hysteria. Its thrashing wings blinded the man, and its talons ripped his chest. But grimly he hung on, the muscles starting out in lumps on his jaws. And the scavengers neck-bones crunched between those powerful teeth. With a spasmodic flutter the bird hung limp. CONAN let go, spat blood from his mouth.

From "A Witch Shall Be Born"
Page 365. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

CONAN is crucified

After being captured by a hundred of the evil Constantius's men he is taken to the roadside outside the city and crucified.

By the side of the caravan road a heavy cross had been planted, and on this grim tree a man hung, nailed there by iron spikes through his hands and feet. Naked but for a loin-cloth, the man was almost a giant in stature, and his muscles stood out in thick corded ridges on limbs and body, which the sun had long ago turned brown. The perspiration of agony beaded his face and his mighty breast, but from under the tangled mane that fell over his low, broad forehead, his blue eyes blazed with an unquenched fire. Blood oozed sluggishly from the lacerations in his hands and feet.

From "A Witch Shall Be Born"
Page 365. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

CONAN is defeated and captured alive

CONAN is defeated and captured alive, but it take a hundred men to do it!

I never saw a man fight as CONAN fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

From "A Witch Shall Be Born"
Page 364-5. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Practice is no match for Primitive Fury

CONAN locks swords with Captain Zaporavo so he can kill him and take over the pirate ship Wastrel. Zaporova is an experienced and skilled fighter, but is no match for CONAN.

The intricacies of the sword were useless against his primative fury as a human boxer's skill against the onslaughts of a panther

From "The Pool of the Black One"
Page 171. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Introducing... Devi Yasmina

Yasmina is introduced to us as she tends to her ailing brother. The first description of her however comes a little later when she goes to see the governor of Peshkharim, Chunder Saun.

It was a woman who had entered unannounced, a woman whose gossamer robes did not conceal the rich garments beneath them any more than they concealed the suppleness and beauty of her tall, slender figure. A filmy veil fell below her breasts, supported by a flowing head-dress bound about a triple gold braid and adorned with a golden crescent. Her dark eyes regarded the astonished governor over the veil, and then with an imperious gesture of her white hand, she uncovered her face.

From, "The People of the Black Circle"
Page 293 "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

Introducing... Thalis

CONAN and his companion Natala are lost in the ancient city of Xuthal. During their wanderings they stumble upon Thalis,

She was tall, lithe, shaped like a goddess; clad in a narrow girdle crusted with jewels. A burnished mass of night-black hair set of the whiteness of her ivory body. Her dark eyes, shaded by long dusky lashes, were deep with sensuous mystery.

From, "The Slithering Shadow"
Page 136 "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

Thalis wants to keep CONAN for herself, and tries to despatch Natala. It doesn't end well for her.

CONAN, not a wild man, but of the wild

CONAN sits next to the fire at night guarding princess Yasmela,

He was not merely a wild man; he was part of the wild, one with the untameable elements of live; in his blood ran the blood of the wolf-packs; his heart throbbed with the fire of blazing forests.

From "Black Colossus"
Page 121. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Introducing... Princess Yasmela

Princess Yasmela has become the target of the amorous advances the recently reincarnated sorcerer, Thugra Khotan, who is about to attack her kingdom in the guise of Natohk, The veiled one. We first meet Yasmela in her bed chamber where she receives a supernatural visit from Thugra,

But princess Yasmela lolled not on that silken bed. She lay naked on her supple belly upon the bare marble like the most abased suppliant, her dark hair streaming over her white shoulders, her slender fingers intertwined. She lay and writhed in pure horror that froze her blood in her lithe limbs and dilated her beautiful eyes, that pricked the roots of her dark hair and made goose-flesh rise along her supple spine.

From "Black Colossus"
Page 107. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.