Comic Title: Warlord #42
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1981
On Sale Date: November 25, 1980 Newsstand Date November 25, 1980
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #48

Newsstand Date November 25, 1980
Source: Comics Journal, #60

Copyright Date November 25, 1980
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1980

Newsstand Date November 25, 1980
Source: Comic Reader, #185

Newsstand Date November 25, 1980
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 80 #26
Listed as on sale the week of November 25th

Shipping Date November 2, 1980
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #48

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jack C. Harris

Title: "War"
Pages: 17

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

Writer/Artist: Mike Grell
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
DC Through the '80s:The End of Eras HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Warlord (last appearance in Warlord #41; next appearance in Warlord #43)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tara (last appearance in Warlord #41; next appearance in Warlord #43)
• Shakira (last appearance in Warlord #41; next appearance in Warlord #44)
• Jennifer Morgan (last appearance in Warlord #38; next appearance in Warlord #44)

Villain(s)

• An army of Therans (last appearance in Warlord #30; next appearance in Warlord #43)
• Faaldren (a hunchback; name revealed in Warlord #48; first appearance; next appearance in Warlord #44)
• Deimos (behind-the-scenes; in Faaldren's box; last appearance in Warlord #36; next appearance in Warlord #44)

Other Character(s)

• A council of elders (next appearance in Warlord #43)

Comments:
This story continues in Warlord #43.

Synopsis:
Travis Morgan finally reaches the city of Shamballah which is surrounded by the Theran army. He charges into the soldiers, surprising them with an attack from the opposite direction. He nearly reaches the gates, but his horse stumbles. He falls, but the Warlord continues to fight with his magic sword. Eventually he is able to mount his horse again and escape, but not before taking an arrow to the shoulder.

Morgan outrides the Therans and is eventually found by Shakira. She has gone back to the Atlantean armory to recover a laser rifle. She gives it to Morgan before parting ways. Sufficiently recovered from his wounds, the Warlord charges the enemy siege lines again. This time he makes it to the gates and get inside the city. He demands to see Tara, only to learn that she never returned from Kaambuka. She is now a prisoner of the Therans.

Elsewhere Jennifer Morgan whose yacht had been returning to the outside world washes up on shore in a liferaft. Her ship was destroyed. She is found by a cloaked hunchback.