(Solomon Kane#1) - Solomon Kane returned to the waiting Spanish vessel, departing the Slave Coast.



((Sword of) Solomon Kane#5 (fb)) - Possession of the staff raised unrelenting urges with Kane, and as he believed that it possessed powers granted by the dark gods of Africa, he wondered more than once if he had condemned his eternal soul by keeping it.



However, he could not bring himself to throw it away.



(Dracula Lives#3/3 - BTS) - After Rosella Carson, the daughter of Goodman Carson, an English friend of Solomon Kane, vanished in the lands of Transylvania, Kane journeyed to that realm to locate her.



(Dracula Lives#3/3 (fb)) - <Mid 1550s> In Transylvania, Solomon Kane was ambushed by four Turkish bandits and rendered unconscious by a sling, but the brigands fled as the full moon arose, apparently fearing Dracula or other vampires.



(Dracula Lives#3/3) - Subsequently attacked by wolves, Kane was saved by Dracula and invited back to his castle to recover.



That night, a woman climbed into Kane's bed and began to caress him with her naked body. Resisting, he recognized her as Rosella Carson and used his stave to oppose her superhuman attack.



Carson mockingly smashed her hand through the staff, but Kane then impaled her with the jagged lower portion.



(Dracula Lives#3/3 - BTS) - Kane confronted and gained the advantage over Dracula, but spared him due to having vowed to grant Dracula any boon after Dracula had spared his life.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#25/2) - <Mid 1550s> Months later, upon learning of Dracula's atrocities, Solomon Kane vowed to return to Transylvania to end his tyranny. He traveled through the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, where he beheaded a succubus imprisoned in the remnants of a second century Roman temple.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#26/2) - <Mid 1550s> Solomon Kane returned to Transylvania. At a funeral, he met the young woman Morgit Sinkovit, whose parents Franz and Marcia had been slain by the vampire lord, and her sister Julka transformed into a vampire. Kane destroyed Julka and then Dracula, but the latter was resurrected when the Romani Bolescu removed the jeweled cross lodged in Dracula's heart.



(Solomon Kane#2) - <Winter, 1955> In the Black Forest near Aubermach, Germany, Solomon Kane rescued Justin, son of his friend Nathan Cabel, from a werewolf. However, having been scratched, Justin was infected and became a werewolf himself, slaying his Romani stepmother, Marta, and Solomon and Nathan were forced to end his life. The original werewolf was revealed to have been Marta's brother.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#18/2, Rattle of Bones ) - Traveling through the Black Forest of Germany, Solomon Kane took shelter at the Cleft Skull Tavern. He faced the rogue Gaston the Butcher (Gaston L'Armon), who was killed by the maddened host of the tavern,who was himself apparently slain by the chained skeleton of a Russian magician he had murdered.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#19/2, The Castle of the Devil ) - In Germany's Black Forest, Solomon Kane rescued a woman from being hung upon the order of Baron (Robert) von Staler. Meeting fellow Englishman John Silent, who was returning from passing Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt, Germany, the two infiltrated the Castle of the Devil and confronted the Baron, a devil worshiper who sacrificed women to a demon he called "Satan."



(Savage Sword of Conan I#22/2, Doctor Strange#37 (fb)) - Near Castle Frankenstein in Darmstadt, Germany, Baron (Hans) von Frankenstein attempted to sacrifice Cathryn to the Scheusslischer Lindwurm, a dragon terrorizing their lands.

This was the second dragon, the first being slain in 1531 by Hans' brother, knight Georg von Frankenstein, the legendary St. George.

Kane slew the Lindwurm, but not before it poisoned Cathryn.



( The Trail of Solomon Kane , Kane... the Avenger ) - Solomon Kane and John Silent rode to Genoa, Italy and ventured out to battle Turkish corsairs on the Mediterranean. Captured by the Turks, Kane spent months as a galley slave before escaping.



(Solomon Kane#4) - <1555> Solomon Kane undertook a subsequent journey to Africa on board a British privateer vessel, but they are captured by Portuguese pirates. The pirates attempted to sell him to a small coastal kingdom in the Arabian desert ruled by Caliph Abu-Ben Ar. Kane was however freed by Ali-Ben Ar, son of the caliph and a prophet attempting to unite the people of Islam. Kane and Ali later entered the tomb of "the old prophet" on the Mountain of Sighs, and Kane briefly considered leaving his Staff within the tomb, believing it to be dark magic, but decided against it.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#171/2) - Traveling through southern France, Solomon Kane was forced to kill the sociopathic child Daniel, who had murdered his whole family.



(Conan Saga#50/3) - Passing the border of France and Spain while en route to the Kingdom of Castile, Kane rescued the Spanish toll collector Gasper from Brother Dom, a demonic Franciscan monk, and the demon Driago.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#37/2 (fb)) - In England, Solomon Kane killed Sir John Taferal in a duel. As he lay dying, John confessed that to receive the inheritance of the Taferal estates, he had sold his cousin Marylin Taferal into slavery to Barbary freebooter El Gar. Marylin was also the cousin to Sir Hildred Taferal, an old friend of Kane. Over the following years, Kane would follow the trail of Marylin, starting his pursuit with El Gar.



( The Trail of Solomon Kane , Kane... the Avenger ) - Solomon Kane followed the trail of El Gar to the Barbary Coast of Africa. While there he was captured and enslaved to serve at the Barbary vineyards, but soon escaped.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#37/2 (fb)) - Solomon Kane pursued El Gar and slew the corsair during a naval battle, but learned the girl had been sold to a merchant out of Stamboul, then taken captive by a Portuguese slaver, which itself was ambushed off the African west coast. Arriving in Africa, Kane continued his search.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#34/2, Savage Sword of Conan I#37/2, Savage Sword of Conan I#39/2, The Moon of Skulls ) - <1566> Pursuing rumors of ancient Negari, a lost colony of Atlantis, Solomon Kane infiltrated the city to locate Marylin Taferal, kept as a slave by its ruler, Queen Nakari. During a confrontation with Nakari, Kane shattered the skull of Nakura, a powerful artifact, causing a massive earthquake, devastating the city and killing Nakari. Kane fled the city with Marylin, returning her home to Devon.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#219 - BTS) - After departing the ruined Negari, Solomon Kane would retain a fragment of the shattered skull of Nakura.



( The Trail of Solomon Kane ) - <1566-1572> Francis Drake and Solomon Kane plundered Spanish treasure galleons in the Caribbean. During this time, Kane acquired knowledge of both woodcraft and guerrilla warfare while fighting South American Indians in Darien (located in modern Panama). (Conan: Serpent War#1-4: The Get of Garm by C.L. Werner (text story)) - <August 4, 1577> Solomon Kane protected the town of Bungay, Norfolk, East Anglia, England from Black Shuck, spawn of Hel hound Garm. Black Shuck wass controlled by Uric Barrow, the son of a witch burned by the townsfolk the prior year. Uric and his father, town sheriff Oswyn Fitzwilliyam, died when a section of St. Mary's Church collapsed upon them, and the wolf demon vanished. (Conan: Serpent War#2 - BTS) - Solomon Kane rescued the niece of Captain Basso of the vessel Shandy from beast-men roaming near Casmin. (Kane... the Avenger) - <1577-1578> Queen Elizabeth I of England dispatched Francis Drake upon his expedition to circumnavigate the globe from 1577-1580. Solomon Kane initially would accompany Drake on the voyage until 1578.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#62/2, The One Black Stain) - <July 2, 1578> Sir Francis Drake had Thomas Doughty executed for treason in St. Julian's Bay (also known as Puerto San Julián) in Argentina, South America, and Solomon Kane considered killing Drake for this misdeed.



(The Trail of Solomon Kane) - After departing the service of Francis Drake, Solomon Kane returned to being a privateer, harrying Spanish shipping in the West Indies alongside his longtime friend Sir Richard Grenville.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#33/2 (fb)) - The pirate Fishhawk (Captain Jonas Hardraker) murdered the daughter of a friend of Solomon Kane on the Spanish Main of the Americas. Kane would spend two years hunting him from the Spanish Main to Portugal and finally to England.



(Conan: Serpent War#1-4) - <1584> Solomon Kane was at Dunbar Castle, Northumberland, England, and slew graverobbers stealing a corpse. Moon Knight (Marc Spector) arrived from the modern era, seemingly transported by the god Khonshu. The spirit of James Alison, dying in the year 1936, spoke through the head of the corpse to guide Kane and Moon Knight to oppose the entity know as the Wyrm. Kane and Moon Knight travel to the coast near Newcastle, but are forced to destroy Captain Basso and the crew of the Shandy, who were possessed by Set. From Newcastle, they take another ship to Rotterdam, Netherlands, then through Luxembourg and Novara, Italy, uncovering corruption of disguised Serpent Men along the way. In Turin, Italy, they battled more Serpent Men to recover a mystic bracelet from a temple, only to find that their actions released the Wyrm, who masqueraded as Khonshu. The true Khonshu then transported them to the village of Tezunar, Stygia during the Hyborian Age, where Solomon Kane and Moon Knight work with Conan the Cimmerian, Dark Agnes de Chastillon (herself displaced from 1522), and Satyne, priestess of Set, to subdue the released Wyrm. Dark Agnes and Moon Knight are restored to their proper times alongside Solomon Kane, who after praying at a church in Durham, England, set out to hunt creatures feeding on corpses. (Savage Sword of Conan I#33/2, Solomon Kane#3, Blades of the Brotherhood) - In northern Britain, the youth John "Jack" Hollinster fought a duel with Sir George Banway, who later alongside pirates the Fishhawk and Ben Allardine, abduct Jack and his lover Mary Garvin to his manor. Solomon Kane rescued the young couple and subsequently killed Fishhawk and Banway.



(The Trail of Solomon Kane, Kane... the Avenger) - Sir Richard Grenville and Solomon Kane again sailed out for another round of privateering against the Spanish treasure fleets.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#20/2 (fb), Savage Sword of Conan I#41/2 (fb), Savage Sword of Conan I#162/2 (fb), Solomon Kane#6/2 (fb) - <August 30-September 1, 1591> Sir Richard Grenville and Solomon Kane engaged the Spanish fleet of 53 ships during the Battle of Flores, fought off the Island of Flores in the Azores. The English vessel Revenge was overwhelmed and sunk by the Spanish and its captain Grenville killed. Solomon Kane was taken prisoner and tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, but he eventually managed to escape.





((Sword of) Solomon Kane#5 (fb)) - Wandering northern Africa, Kane observed elephants and giraffes and even a sauropod (which he believed to be a legendary dragon) in the mists of some forgotten valley (see comments).



((Sword of) Solomon Kane#5 (fb) - BTS) - Kane battled for his life against a savage tribe more ape than human.



((Sword of) Solomon Kane#5 (fb) - BTS) - Kane witnessed and fought against slavers.



((Sword of) Solomon Kane#5 (fb) - BTS) - Kane located N'Longa.



(Kull and the Barbarians#2/2 (fb) / (Sword of) Solomon Kane#5) - The old witch man N'Longa assured Kane that the voodoo staff (the Staff of Solomon) was still his, telling him when his gun failed him, the staff would save him. N'Longa further advised Kane that if Kane wanted him, he should lay the staff on his chest, fold his hands, and then sleep, after which N'Longa would come to him in his sleep.



(Kull and the Barbarians#2/2-3/3, Solomon Kane#5, The Hills of the Dead) - Solomon Kane voyaged back to the Slave Coast of Africa, and after spending some weeks of venturing inland, he rescued the girl Zunna from first a lion and later from vampiric creatures that inhabited an ancient and abandoned city of Engazi. Kane used his voodoo staff to contact the astral form of the shaman N'Longa, who temporarily possessed the body of tribesman Kran, Zunna's lover. Kane drew the horde of vampires from the city, after which N'Longa summoned thousands of vultures to consume their dead flesh, causing the creatures to flee back to their city, which N'Longa then destroyed with fire. Kran was then returned to his body by N'Longa.



(Hawk of Basti) - Solomon Kane encountered Jeremy Hawk, a former English privateer turned pirate who had usurped the kingship of the city of Basti, located on the Isles of Ra of lake Nyayna in Africa, ruling over the Khabasti and Masutos peoples. The high priest Agara sought to overthrow him, but N'Longa used Kane's voodoo staff to possess the body of Hawk, killing Agara and ruling benevolently over Basti.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#53/2-54/2, Solomon Kane#6, Wings in the Night) - After the African village of Lower Bogonda was massacred by Akaanas, winged beasts descended from the harpies exiled from ancient Thrace by Jason and the Argonauts, Solomon Kane befriended Goru and the people of Upper Bogonda, including Kuroba, Loga and Nayela. Kane subsequently slaughtered the Akaanas after they massacre Upper Bogonda.



(Marvel Preview#19/2, The Footfalls Within) - Solomon Kane was captured by Arab slavers led by the Sheikh Hassim ben Said after his attempt to free African tribesmen from their chains. The scholar Yussef of Hadji revealed his voodoo staff was actually the legendary Staff of Solomon, millions of years old and used by biblical patriarchs including Moses and King Solomon. Hassim died when he unsealed an ancient crypt closed by King Solomon, but the released demon was destroyed by Kane.



(Savage Sword of Conan I#41/2, The Return of Sir Richard Grenville) - The ghost of his friend Sir Richard Grenville appeared to Solomon Kane in Africa, warning of an impending attack by hostile tribesmen. Kane fought off the attackers as Grenville faded back into the night.



(The Children of Asshur) - Solomon Kane became captive in the African city of Ninn, inhabited by descendants of ancient Assyria. The priest Yamen proclaimed Kane to be an oracle of the Annunaki god Baal, in an effort to enforce the power of the corrupt king Asshur-ras-arab. After rescuing the noblewoman Siduri from a lion, Kane supported her brother Labashi to become the new king of Ninn.

