Savage tales is the title of a black and white magazine-sized comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics.
The first of its two volumes ran for 11 issues and one annual, from May 1971 to July 1975. The first five issues of Savage tales featured Robert E. Howard's character Conan the Barbarian and assorted sword-and-sorcery characters, as well as prose stories and articles. The last six issues featured Ka-Zar, lord of the Savage Land. This time-lost country, in the Marvel Universe, is located in Antarctica and is home various prehistoric life-forms. Savage tales Vol. 1, #1 also saw the first appearance of the swamp creature called the Man-Thing, who would later get his own title.
Highlights of the first volumes of Savage tales include painted covers by John Buscema (#1, #2); Neal Adams (#4-6) and Boris Vallejo (#7, #10). It also featured the first publication of stories often reprinted in later years, most notably "The frost giant's daughter" (in #1) and "Red nails" (in #2-3), both adapted from Robert E. Howard stories by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith.