Comic Title: Warlord #3
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Oct/Nov 1976
On Sale Date: July 20, 1976 Newsstand Date July 20, 1976
Source: Direct Currents, Amazing World of DC Comics #12

Copyright Date July 20, 1976
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1976

Newsstand Date July 29, 1976
Source: Comic Reader, #132

Newsstand Date July 19, 1976
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 76 #11
Listed as on sale the week of July 19th

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.30
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "War Gods of Skartaris"
Pages: 17

Feature(s):
Warlord (of Earth-1)

Writer/Artist: Mike Grell
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Warlord TPB (1992)
Showcase Presents:Warlord Vol. 1 TPB (2009)

Feature Character(s)

• Warlord (last appearance in Warlord #12; next appearance in Warlord #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Machiste (last appearance in Warlord #12; next appearance in Warlord #4)

Villain(s)

• A group of lizardmen (no further appearances)
• A group of Theran soldiers (no further appearances)
• A giant lizard (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Morgan's army (first appearance; next appearance in Warlord #4)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Tara (in flashback)
• Deimos (in flashback)

Synopsis:
Following his escape from the gladiatorial arena, Morgan has begun to raise an army to lead against Deimos, the new king of Thera. His army engages Theran soldiers in battle and wins. Following the battle, Morgan, who has now earned the title the Warlord, chases after a unicorn. The chase leads him into a trap set by lizardmen, and he is captured.

Morgan awakens to find him tied up in the ruins of an old temple. He discovers that the temple was destroys by his plane when it crashed. The lizardmen now worship the plane as a god and intend to sacrifice Morgan to a giant serpent.

Machiste has followed Morgan and manages to get him loose during the serpent attack. Morgan retrieves the gun from the cockpit of the plane, but it is not sufficient to kill the beast. Instead he lures the serpent close to the plane then pulls the handle for the ejection seat. The seat shoots into the air with enough force to blow directly through the head of the serpent. Morgan and Machiste then leave the area without finding an abandoned control room which belonged to an advanced civilization which appears to have been destroyed.