Comic Title: Arak/Son of Thunder #9
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1982
On Sale Date: February 4, 1982 Newsstand Date February 4, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #199

Newsstand Date February 4, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #70

Newsstand Date February 4, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #8

Copyright Date January 12, 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: 32
Editor: Laurie S. Sutton

Title: "Frozen Hell for a Viking"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Viking Prince (of Earth-1)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Jan Duursema
Letterer: Andy Kubert
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Feature Character(s)

• Viking Prince (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Evor (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8)
• Illan (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8)
• A mute bard (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #23; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8)

Villain(s)

• A sea serpent (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8; no further appearances)
• A dragon (no further appearances)
• Several druids (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Gorra (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #8)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Ailsa (in Jon's vision)
• Krogg the Red (in Jon's vision)

Comments:
This story is continued from the second story of Arak/Son of Thunder #8 and continues in the second story of Arak/Son of Thunder #10.

Synopsis:
The Viking Prince has dived into icy waters in pursuit of Krogg the Red who has abducted his twin sister. Jon faces a sea serpent and gouges out an eye to escape. The battle delays him, allowing Krogg to get away.

Evor, the court jester, and a mute bard are the only other survivors from Krogg's raid. They join Jon on a trek across the ice to find Ailsa. Along the way Jon rescues a girl, Illan, who is being used as a sacrifice to a dragon. Jon forces the dragon off a cliff, then battles the druids who offered the girl up for her death. One of the druids severs Jon's arm.

Jon's friends pack the severed arm in snow and take him to the cave of Gorra, the witch woman. She performs a healing ritual and successfully reattaches Jon's arm.