''The Chronicles of Conan Volume 19'' collects several timeless Conan tales by the powerhouse team of writer Bruce Jones and artists John Buscema and Ernie Chan - including their ''Deathmark'' issue, which mixes tattoos, severed arms, and a decades-old grudge into a gruesome mystery, and ''Tower of Mitra'', where a magically endowed beauty, seen in a previous Jones Conan story, returns to help defeat a demonic harpy. Writers Mary Jo Duffy, Alan Zelenetz, and Michael Fleisher also contribute one-shot stories to this collection, which finds Conan facing the Dragon of Solvanthia, numerous witches and wizards, rat demons, bloodthirsty swordsmen, and his own son by a priestess of the Cimmerian wilderness!