Comic Title: Arak/Son of Thunder #27
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1983
On Sale Date: August 4, 1983 Newsstand Date August 4, 1983
Source: Amazing Heroes, #29

Newsstand Date August 2, 1983
Source: Comic Reader, #212

Shipping Date July 12, 1983
Source: Comic Reader, #212

Copyright Date July 12, 1983
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1983
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date July 12, 1983
Source: Comics Journal, #83

Shipping Date July 12, 1983
Source: Amazing Heroes, #29

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.60
Page Count: 32
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "When Dead Gods Walk"
Pages: 16

Feature(s):
Arak

Writer: Roy Thomas
Plotter: Danette Thomas
Artist: Ron Randall
Letterer: Bob Lappan
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Feature Character(s)

• Arak (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #28)

Supporting Character(s)

• Satyricus (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #28)

Villain(s)

• Irene (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; no further appearances)
• Constantine VI (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; no further appearances)
• Various Byzantine soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dyanna (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; next appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #28)
• General Cometas (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; no further appearances)
• Cladus and the Greens (last appearance in Arak/Son of Thunder #26; no further appearances)
• Valerus and the Blues (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Dziewona (in flashback to the second story of Warlord #48)

Comments:
This story is continued from Arak/Son of Thunder #26 and continues in the first story of Arak/Son of Thunder #28.

Synopsis:
After winning a chariot race, Arak witnesses the Byzantines set fire to a caged lioness. The animal transforms into a woman which Arak recognizes as the sister of the priestess Dziewona. Risking his own life in the process, Arak frees the woman. The empress then orders his death.

Arak and Satyricus hold off an attack by Byzantine soldiers. The woman, Dyanna, regains her strength and issues a prayer to the gods. Her prayer is answered in the form of an eclipse. She also causes the statues in the arena to come to life in her defense. Lastly she animates a pair of bronze horses. Arak mounts one of the horses and follows her out of the city with Satyricus behind him.