Comic Title: Warlord #21
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1979
On Sale Date: February 22, 1979 Newsstand Date February 22, 1979
Source: House Ad, Warlord #20, Page 29

Newsstand Date February 22, 1979
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #27

Copyright Date February 22, 1979
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1979

Newsstand Date February 19, 1979
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 79 #6
Listed as on sale the fourth week of February

Newsstand Date February 27, 1979
Source: Comic Reader, #165

Shipping Date January 30, 1979
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #27

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.40
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jack C. Harris

Title: "Terminator"
Pages: 17

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

Writer/Penciller: Mike Grell
Inker: Vince Colletta
Letterer: Ben Oda
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

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

Feature Character(s)

• Warlord (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tara (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #25)
• Machiste (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #25)
• Mariah (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #25)
• Joshua Morgan (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #30)

Villain(s)

• Deimos (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #26)
• Ashiya (last appearance in Warlord #20; next appearance in Warlord #50)
• A clone of Joshua (dies in this story; last appearance in Warlord #20; no further appearances)
• Various minions of Deimos (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Shadow (last appearance in Warlord #19; no further appearances)
• Dagin and Hecubah (Joshua's foster parents; not named in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Warlord #30)

Comments:
This story is continued from Warlord #20.

Synopsis:
The Warlord, Travis Morgan, has tracked Deimos to his lair near the entrance to Skartaris. Morgan soon learns that Deimos has used ancient Atlantean technology to rapidly age Joshua Morgan to adulthood. The sorcerer then matches father against son in a duel to the death. Warlord is forced to shoot his son in order to save his own life.

Meanwhile, Tara, Machiste, and Mariah fight their way through a cavern that leads inside Deimos's castle. Tara uses the recently discovered Hellfire jewel to slay a creature summoned by Deimos to save her lover. Then the dog Shadow attacks Deimos and pushes him off a balcony to his apparent doom.

Morgan wants to use the Mask of Life to revive his son, but Tara explains that to do so would condemn Joshua to life as an undead creature subsisting on blood and unable to leave the shadows. Morgan then rides away from the fortress alone, haunted by the death of his son.

Elsewhere, Deimos's servant Ashiya hands over a child to a couple of peasants. The child is Morgan's true son, identified by the wristwatch around his arm. The watch once belonged to his father. In truth, the Warlord killed a clone of Joshua which Deimos created via Atlantean science.