Comic Title: Arak/Son of Thunder #15
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1982
On Sale Date: August 5, 1982 Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: House Ad, All-Star Squadron #14, Page 32

Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #203

Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #75

Newsstand Date August 5, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #13

Copyright Date July 13, 1982
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1982
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.60
Page Count: 48
Editor: Roy Thomas

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "Ceremonies -- and Sacrifices"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Valda

Writer: Roy Thomas
Writer: Danette Thomas
Penciller: Trevor Von Eeden
Inker/Letterer: Alfredo P. Alcala
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Feature Character(s)

• Valda (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #14; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Malagigi (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #14; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #16)

Villain(s)

• Chelchak (name revealed in this story; last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #14; no further appearances)
• A hun kagan and his men (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from the second story of Arak/Son of Thunder #14.

Synopsis:
Valda awakens as a captive of the hun priest Chelchak. It was he who stopped the man-eating horses from killing her. However, she has killed the hun leader's prize mare and is now scheduled to be sacrificed. Chelchak takes her before the hun kagan and spills her blood on a hide decorated by horse drawings. The priest asks the kagan to spare Valda's life. When the hun orders her dead anyway, Chelchak transforms into a horse and carries Valda to freedom.

Valda and Chelchak part ways at the river. Valda crosses and is reunited with Malagigi who shows her that all the horses of the frank army have mysteriously died. Valda realizes that it was Chelchak's spell which killed them. Without the horses, Carlous Magnus cannot continue the war against the huns.