Editing Giants in the Earth (section)

=Issue #41=
* Jirel of Joiry (Female Human Fighter 14), from the titular story by C.L. Moore.
* Ayesha (Female Human Cleric 27/Fighter 9), from the Ayesha series of Gothic-Fantasy novels by H. Rider Haggard.
* Valeria (Female Human Fighter 17/Thief 8), from the Conan story ''Red Nails'' by Robert E. Howard.
* Sigurd Fafnirsbane (Male Human Fighter 20/Magic-User 12/Cleric 8), from the Nordic myth of Sigurd and Fafnir.
* Starkad (Male Half-Elf/Half-Giant crossbreed Fighter 23) from obscure Nordic legends.

For the curious, [[Conan the Barbarian]] himself never appeared in his article series... but he '''did''' get an AD&D 1e writeup by [[Gygax]] himself in Dragon #36!