As discussed on the page of Arak images, Claw was a take off on the popular Conan the Barabarian series of comics released by, DC. As you may note, Conan, Arak and Claw, were all released by DC. I suppose they, like a resturant, felt that if their customers wanted beef, they might like it prepared in slightly different ways.
Conan, as you may recall was on some sort of quest, as was Arak, and apparently Claw. All were 'barbarians' of differing degree, but the stories in all of the comics followed a familiar pattern. Conan, Arak, and Claw, (Heretofor named Barbarian,) are minding their own business in pursuit of their quests. Barbarian is either accousted by bad guys, hears of a wrong he must right, overhears a plot, sees a crime, or finds a lady in distress as in this comic, and his quest is either hindered or advanced by the issues's circumstances.
Fantasia not withstanding, Claw finds a young woman up to her waist in quicksand, and with his horse and a few handy and remarkably strong vines, makes short work of her recue. As his horse pulls and strains at what seems to be a remarkable abount of weight for such a delicate looking beauty, she is pulled out to reveal... Ta dah! She's a centaur! And a right lovely one at that. With a few flicks of her tail, she is neat and clean. There is little if any notice taken in the story of Claw's horse's reaction to this revelation.
In a somewhat interesting twist, the story goes on to reveal, after a 'quest' to get some magical item... who cares? Just the pages with the centaur are featured her, that a wizard told the female centaur that she was a human who was changed into a centaur. Her quest is to change herself back. It turns out, the wizard used a spell to make her buy his story, and she had been a centaur all her life.
It's a sad story, but the artwork isn't too bad.
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