CONAN COMEBACK BY CROM!

[MichaelDoran]

<img src="http://classic.newsarama.com/general/conan.jpg" width="150" height="189" align="right">Dark Horse Comics President Mike Richardson announced today a new publishing program featuring the classic Robert E. Howard creation Conan the Barbarian. DHC’s new monthly ongoing series will include all new stories based on the character and also incorporate adaptations of Howard’s original Conan tales.

"I am very honored and excited to bring this classic character back to the comics world," commented Richardson. "We will be working closely with Fredrik Malmberg of Conan properties to ensure the highest quality stories and art to do this legendary character justice."

According to Dark Horse, “First introduced as ‘Conan the Cimmerian’ in the 1930's, Howard's character quickly garnered an enormous following the world over. Over the past 70 years the barbarian hero has been brought to life in books, comics, television, and film. Recently rumored to be in the works is a new Conan feature film!”

"Conan has been a major comics franchise for many years," Fredrik Malmberg remarked. "Dark Horse was our number one choice when we looked for a new licensee and we are extremely pleased with the creative approach they are planning."

The Dark Horse Conan series is scheduled to launch mid 2003 and we’ll have more creative details when they’re available.

A spokesperson for Dark Horse also confirmed they are working with the Swedish Company Paradox Entertainment, who in September announced the purchase of 20% of the Conan Sales Company, the corporation which holds all right to Conan, with the option to purchase all remaining stock. The agreement gives Paradox the management of the Conan property. Newsarama’s original story on that deal follows.

Originally published in October 2002:

It's been a little around two years since Conan graced the pages of comics, and by Crom, he may just be coming back soon. In a deal made public September 26th, a Swedish company, Paradox Entertainment, bought 20% of the Conan Sales Company, the corporation that holds all right to Conan. The particular agreement between Paradox and CSC both gives the management of the Conan property to the Swedish company and allows Paradox the option to purchase all remaining stock in CSC as well, effectively owning the Conan property outright.

As a company, Paradox labels itself as a publisher, created to build science fiction, fantasy and alternative history brands in cross-media platforms. Its brands to date include Mutant Chronicles, Europa Unversalis, Kult, Heavy Gear, Hearts of Iron, and Crusader Kings.

Returning Conan to comics is something that tops the list of Paradox CEO, Theodore Bergquist. "Comics are obviously something we want to see Conan return to," Bergquist told Newsarama. "Since the property has its roots in publishing and pulps, that's an important channel for us to work in. Marvel worked with Conan for over 20 years, and it was their best-selling comic for years. This isn't something that we'll put on ice - seeing Conan return to comics is important for the property."

While Bergquist declined to go into specifics, he said that there was tremendous interest in Conan as a comic book property, but did not say if an announcement of a publishing plan was imminent.

According to Bergquist, the time is ripe for a return of Conan to all forms of media, and the head of Paradox cited the Warner Brothers option for a third Conan film, as well as the TDK license that allows the company to make cross-platform videogames starring the character, and the ongoing publishing plan with TOR books.

"We've got two major challenges: The first is to be true to the great Conan fan base, and the second is to elevate the Conan brand and its characters preparing the property for another sixty years in the entertainment industry," Bergquist said. "We feel that Paradox is well suited to take on such tasks."

Marvel's last Conan comic was released in 2000, and reportedly, the comic license reverted back to CSC at the time. According to comments made by Marvel's Editor in Chief Joe Quesada concerning the publishing rights to similar characters, the rights to publish Conan comics may have been lost in the shuffle during the publisher's bankruptcy years.

More recently, Cross Plains Comics acquired the comic rights to virtually the entire Robert E. Howard library of characters except Conan, with publisher Richard Ashford looking to acquire Conan if he could. Cross Plains couldn't get its footing in the market, and folded in 2000.

[Wade @ Sighnub.com]

Dark Horse can probably this character more justice than anyone else.

Wouldn't it be great if they could get Mike (Hellboy) Mignola on covers at least.

[Kevin T. Brown]

This is great news! And while I'm not normally a Conan fan, with the right creative teams I might be willing to pick up the first few issues. Especially if Mike Mignola was somehow involved!

[tralfaz]

finally!!!!

[ParisCub]

[quote]Originally posted by Wade @ Sighnub.com:
<strong>Dark Horse can probably this character more justice than anyone else.

Wouldn't it be great if they could get Mike (Hellboy) Mignola on covers at least.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Shame it's Dark Horse... :-( I've never been a fan of their company policy (mainly in foreign countries).I wish the deal would have gone to a better company.. In fact, any company would have been better than Dark Horse hehe

I won't buy, unless there's some Barry Windsor Smith (that's a safe assumption that there won't be) ;-)

[Wade @ Sighnub.com]

C'mon - Dark Horse has earned some props for being able to handle licensed properties over the years

[Flapjack]

Crom! At last! New Conan comics. Dark Horse has always produced decent licensed adventure characters like Indiana Jones and the Shadow. I'm sure they will do a nice job with the Cimmerian. I hope the go with the darker toned Howard stories. I've always loved the Marvel books, but I wish that there had been more of that slight horror edge that REH put into the stories.

[tralfaz]

[quote]Originally posted by ParisCub:
<strong>

Shame it's Dark Horse... :-( I've never been a fan of their company policy (mainly in foreign countries).I wish the deal would have gone to a better company.. In fact, any company would have been better than Dark Horse hehe

I won't buy, unless there's some Barry Windsor Smith (that's a safe assumption that there won't be) ;-)</strong><hr></blockquote>

what company would you suggest? Crossgen comes to my mind.

BWS art all the way dammit!!! Anything less is crapola.

[MikeD]

[quote]Originally posted by tralfaz:
<strong>
BWS art all the way dammit!!! Anything less is crapola.</strong><hr></blockquote>

You're not suggesting any other previous Conan artist is "crapola," are you? John Buscema (R.I.P.) art is anything but!

[Seric]

Cool, This will sell. I hope they keep them in TPBs, Dark Horse is normally good with that. OH, Dark Horse if you are reading this, we could use TPBs of the Indiana Jones, Doc Savage, and other Pulps. Here I don't sell much Dark Horse in comic form, mostly the TPBs, but they sell well.

[PopCultureKid]

Finally a licensed character from the 80's (and before) that has potential.

[Slangword]

I would love to see Roy Thomas and Rafael Kayanan teamed up again on Conan.

Roy Thomas is the only comics writer I've really enjoyed on Conan, so I'd like to see him be the main (sole if possible)writer. I agree with the previous poster that said inclusion of the darker sword and sorcery elements would be nice.

Other artists to consider - Ernie Colon, Steve Lightle (particularly if Red Sonja can be included), Tim Truman, and Alcatena. I seem to recall that Mike Docherty did a nice job, too.

--Scott

[Chris Hunter]

[quote]Originally posted by Seric:
<strong>Cool, This will sell. </strong><hr></blockquote>

Really? And this property has been in limbo for how long? This will be the 9th or 10th volume of the series? That doesn't really qualify it as a selling item to me, more like a continuously failed property.

I'm not trying to start a fight. I just don't see how this property will sell very well. Judging by it's track record...........

[Reaper]

By crom is right! I'll be very happy to see Conan back in comics. Hopefully Dark Horse will bring good production values as I think they will. For artwork, I'd love to see BWS covers at least.

A new Conan feature film with Vin Diesel would be great but I'd really like to see Arnie back in a King Conan movie.

-Tim

[Seric]

My comment on this about "this will sell".
I refer to my store (Camelot Comics in Newberg Oregon), we have Conan fans here, and to give you an Idea of my customer base, Sojourn is the best selling title in the store. So, nationwide I do not know, but here it will sell, though I might sell more when they put it in TPB then as a monthly comic.

[GarBerner]

[quote]Originally posted by Flapjack:
<strong>Crom! At last! New Conan comics. Dark Horse has always produced decent licensed adventure characters like Indiana Jones and the Shadow.</strong><hr></blockquote>

That's great news about Conan at Dark Horse.

How soon are we going to see Conan 2100?

[heeBGB]

[quote]Originally posted by GarBerner:
<strong>

That's great news about Conan at Dark Horse.

How soon are we going to see Conan 2100?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Right after we see "Conan Versus Aliens", "Conan Versus Predator", "Conan Versus Aliens Versus Predator", and the redundant "Conan Versus Terminator"... :)

[Jonas.Vesterlund]

Fredrik Malmberg of Conan properties

Is that not a Swedish name if I have ever seen it. Is there some secret Swedish Mafia connection to COnan or??

:-)

[tralfaz]

[quote]Originally posted by MikeD:
<strong>

You're not suggesting any other previous Conan artist is "crapola," are you? John Buscema (R.I.P.) art is anything but!</strong><hr></blockquote>

no I'm not, but it would be pretty hard for John to grace us with his excellent art now wouldnt?

[Oswald Carver]

I, for one, couldn't be #$%@ing happier. Now if this "King Conan: Crown of Iron" movie that Milius, the Wachowskis, and Arnie are talking about actually gets made, I might just crap my pants in pleasure. (Especially if they can talk Oliver Stone into working his magic on Milius's final draft again.)

[MattBrady]

[quote]Originally posted by tralfaz:
<strong>BWS art all the way dammit!!! Anything less is crapola.</strong><hr></blockquote>

While I wouldn't rule it out 100%, given his experience with the company previously, I doubt he's placed any calls to Milwaukie, OR lately.

As for Conan being a property that's "continuously failed"...it lasted over ten years at Marvel originally, spawned two spinoffs, and the popularity of the comic was largely responsible for the movie(s) being made. It also, at one time, was Marvel's best-selling comic, usually jockeying between the #1 and #2 position with that comic called Uncanny X-Men.

Sales of later, less-inspired projects were lackluster, but by the time Marvel really gave up the ghost on it in the mid '90s (even though they published later stories to maintain their hold on the copyright...), sales on everything were dropping like rocks.

MattB


MattB

[Jason Michael]

[quote]Originally posted by ParisCub:
<strong>

Shame it's Dark Horse... :-( I've never been a fan of their company policy (mainly in foreign countries).I wish the deal would have gone to a better company.. In fact, any company would have been better than Dark Horse hehe

I won't buy, unless there's some Barry Windsor Smith (that's a safe assumption that there won't be) ;-)</strong><hr></blockquote>

What is the company policy that you don't approve of?

Jason

[heeBGB]

[quote]Originally posted by Matt Brady:
<strong>As for Conan being a property that's "continuously failed"...it lasted over ten years at Marvel originally, spawned two spinoffs, and the popularity of the comic was largely responsible for the movie(s) being made. It also, at one time, was Marvel's best-selling comic, usually jockeying between the #1 and #2 position with that comic called Uncanny X-Men.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Hey Matt, you shorted Marvel's run on Conan a bit -- between Marvel's initial series in comics form in 1970 and the magazine-format SAVAGE SWORD (which for many years was as much a presence on magazine racks as MAD in outlets that didn't carry traditional comics), Marvel continuously published Conan comics and magazines for 25 years...! :D

[Max Castle]

[quote] Hey Matt, you shorted Marvel's run on Conan a bit -- between Marvel's initial series in comics form in 1970 and the magazine-format SAVAGE SWORD (which for many years was as much a presence on magazine racks as MAD in outlets that didn't carry traditional comics), Marvel continuously published Conan comics and magazines for 25 years...!

"Continuously failed", my ass -- yet still another demonstration of the small-minded and myopic world-view and complete and utter lack of sense of history among today's fandom.
<hr></blockquote>

My thoughts exactly.

[John Carter of Mars]

Gotta say I'm thrilled to know that the Cimmerian will be returning to my local comic shop. Having collected the bulk of the Marvel books, I look forward to a fresh look at the character. I'm not suprised the series failed to keep readers at the tail end of it's run or why the multiple mini's in the 90's did not generate interest in the character. The reason is quite basic- shoddy writing and often lackluster art. Too many fine properties suffer in quality because the publisher relies on we, the hungering fandom, to suck up whatever scraps they toss us. Quality doesn't matter because we're bound to buy it anyway. Of course this never works in the long run. Thankfully, I don't possess the 'completist' gene so I will never shell out the bucks to finish my Conan run. Dark Horse is a very promising home for this brutal, dark, gritty rogue- hopefully they will get back to basics and really make an effort to reflect Robert Howard's storytelling. I'll be waiting ever so impatiently!

[Astro Demon]

I think that the main point that we should understand is that the license is now at DH... let's see what they can do with it.

It seems Marvel had it's moments with the title and, with the new regime, has pretty much given up on it ("Ultimate Conan"?...Right). Obviously they could have manufactured the title to sell by gathering some "hot" creative team for it... If they really had any intention of keeping it.

Therefore, I think that if the company AND the creative team, no matter WHO it is, are passionate about making a good Conan book they can and will.

[KOBE27]

I have no problems with Dark Horse. They HAVE handled pulp properties in the past like Doc Savage and The Shadow with grace and ellegance in the past. Just please, PLEASE remember this is not Xena or Hercules (or that godawful Conan TV series). I used to despair when the kids were asking for Conan to fight a dinosaur in its letter pages. It was never about fantasy and fighting big bad monsters, it was about horror. That bit about all new stories is not exactly a selling point for me but since ALL of the original Conan stories, and pretty much all its pastiches even, have already been adapted I guess that's that. Or perhaps they should just let a once glorious character rest for good? Just a thought.

[KOBE27]

I have no problems with Dark Horse. They HAVE handled pulp properties in the past like Doc Savage and The Shadow with grace and ellegance in the past. Just please, PLEASE remember this is not Xena or Hercules (or that godawful Conan TV series). I used to despair when the kids were asking for Conan to fight a dinosaur in its letter pages. It was never about fantasy and fighting big bad monsters, it was about horror. That bit about all new stories is not exactly a selling point for me but since ALL of the original Conan stories, and pretty much all its pastiches even, have already been adapted I guess that's that. Or perhaps they should just let a once glorious character rest for good? Just a thought.

[Tue Sorensen]

[quote]Originally posted by heeBGB:
<strong>Right after we see "Conan Versus Aliens", "Conan Versus Predator", "Conan Versus Aliens Versus Predator", and the redundant "Conan Versus Terminator"... :) </strong><hr></blockquote>
Hey, I'd buy it!! Of course, Conan is too tough for a Predator...

That picture in the article looks an awful lot like the work of Claudio Castellini to me! I worship Castellini! If he is the artist, all I can say is... oboy oboy oboy!!!

As for the next Conan film; I heard it'd be starring the Rock as Conan jr., with Arnie as the elder King Conan in a smaller role. But I guess it's still up in the air.

- Tue

[DavidStallard]

[quote]Originally posted by Oswald Carver:
<strong>(Especially if they can talk Oliver Stone into working his magic on Milius's final draft again.)</strong><hr></blockquote>

Oliver Stone didn't work magic on John Milius's script. Rather, Milius saved the script from Stone's boneheaded ideas. Stone's script had little monsters and stuff running all over the place--something more like Dungeons & Dragons. Thankfully they nixed a lot of his ideas and got more in line with Robert E. Howard's original vision. I hope Stone stays far away from King Conan: Crown of Iron...Milius knows what he's doing when it comes to the barbarian.

[Alex Clarke Kent]

[quote]Originally posted by heeBGB:
<strong>

Right after we see "Conan Versus Aliens", "Conan Versus Predator", "Conan Versus Aliens Versus Predator", and the redundant "Conan Versus Terminator"... :) </strong><hr></blockquote>

Arnold as Conan confronts the Predator. I can see it in my mind's eye right now....

"By Crom! You are one ugly mother-f--ker!"

[Deejay]

By Crom, Conan's back! Yee-haw! I hope Dark Horse lavishes the same kind of attention on him as it does on it's other licensed features. Any chance of reprinting some of the Marvel stuff? Besides the Thomas/Smith stuff I'd love to see some of the early Buscema/Alcala collaborations reprinted on nice paper.
As far as new material is concerned; Barry Smith is a natch but does anyone actually believe he'll return. How about John Bolton? Not very likely either I suppose. Darn! Neal Adams? Yeah right. Okay, Mike Mignola. Conan meets Hellboy. Maybe not. :D

[terry]

As a Conan fan I'm very pleased that Dark Horse have picked up the character _BUT_.

Although I admire some of the work Roy did at Marvel especially in the early issues of both the comic and the magazines there was also IMO a lot of poor stories of Conan and his world .

I hope they are true to Bob Howard's stories if they are doing new adaptations of those and if new stories are produced ensure that they are true to the spirit of the character.

The true Conan is in Bob's stories , not Marvel's , or even more so the number of poor pastiche novels and films.

Looking forward to many more years of Robert E Howard's Conan in DH comics .

And please no Alien / Predator cross-overs

Terry

[grendel x]

any chance dark horse will put out any reprints of some the marvel material(particularly some of the Savage Sword of Conan stories)like they did with star wars?

[terry]

Difficult to say . IIRC from the Press Release they are planning new adaptations of Howard's stories and a lot of them appeared in the early ST / SSOC magazines.

Terry

[TTROY]

Continuously failed? ummm Conan was one of the biggest properties marvel had for year if not the biggest line of comics.... It brought in comics readers who would not normally read comics... and and the failure of the series in the larter years had more to do with the sttucture of marvcel and the direction of the industry at the time rather than the property as a whole....

Really someone really needs to give some newer fans history lessons...

Comic did not start when Todd mcFarlane and Rob Liefeld got their balls in a bunch...

I still blame Wizard as a whole for this...being a fan in the late 80's I found alot of history given to various titles creators and companies in Amazing Heroes. Ans it was fairly accurate history not a history designed to capitalize on a trend....(were these 80's toy tie in comics really that big back then and were there really that many fans clammoring for their return?)

When a story was made in that magazine ---they managed to give a history of the title or creator at the same time reporting on what was going forward....

For instance i learned tons about Charlton comics and the heroes therein by reading an article on Watchmen. The Wizard model would have nothing or a stupid sidebar that gave very little in term of information.

[terry]

While we are awaiting the official announcement I was wondering who we might see and thought I'd offer some ideas.

On the artistic side I imagine there are dozens of possibilities but I'd like to see someone more realistic than what we get on the superhero titles .

Obviously , I imagine , most would like the see Barry Windsor-Smith but I'm led to believe that would be unlikely _but_if DH reprint his original run I would love it if some deal could be done for him to finish the stories that had to go to print from his pencils or those that were finished by 1001 hands.

As for on-going , two names spring to mind who were at Marvel on Conan in it's latter days as well as the REH Cross Plains Books :- Rafael Kayanan and Steve Lightle .

Th writing is another matter . It needs , IMO , someone who knows the character and his world well . Roy Thomas is the obvious choice , but not knowing Roy's current commitments would he really want to write Conan again . Indeed would he really have anything new to offer ? I'd like to see him as a consultant , if nothing else though.

I'll offer a name , a little out of left-field for many comics fans . Robert Weinberg , a respected SF / Fantasy author , a Weird Tales collector and REH fan as well as the writer of a book on REH's Sword and Sorcery . In recent years he's come over into the comics field on Marvel's Cable and Nightside books as well as an upcoming series for Wildstorm .

Any thoughts ?

Terry

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[terry]

Hi , regarding Conan and his creator Robert E Howard I'd like to advise some information in case you wanted to follow up further .

Firstly as far as comics are concerned although Marvel held onto Conan , the rest of REH's creations , except for Solomon Kane , were picked up by the now sadly defunct Cross Plains Comics . They did put out half a dozen books which might be worth tracking down if you can . These were Robert E Howard's : Horror , Mythmaker , Wolfshead , Red Sonja [ not a_pure_REH creation ] , Worms of the Earth [ published with Wandering Star ] and Rusty Burke's Robert E Howard : A Short Biography .

On the prose side although Conan stories / books haven't been printed in the US for many years there are many available from past publishers . But most of these are not_pure_Howard , they have been edited / completed by other hands , mainly DeCamp , and then there are the numerous pastiches.

However , Wandering Star are shortly to be publishing their first volume of a three book set . These will be very lavishly illustrated hardcovers and pretty expensive . As they say on their website <a href="http://www.wanderingplanet.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wanderingplanet.com/</a> " The stories will be published in a three volume set, textually restored, meticulously researched, and containing hundreds of exciting illustrations from artist Mark Schultz (for volume one) and Gary Gianni (for volume two). In addition, never before published Conan material by Robert E. Howard will appear here for the first time! You have never seen Conan done like this... with this much quality, this much attention to detail, this authentic. For Howard fans, this will be THE event of the last 50 years! The first volume is expected to be printed in late 2002."

Check the site for further news on these and other WS REH releases.

If you are looking for a cheaper option Millennium/Gollancz in the UK have published as part of their Fantasy Masterpieces series <a href="http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/links/fan_index.htm," target="_blank">http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/links/fan_index.htm,</a> a two volume set The Conan Chronicles [ not to be confused with the Jordan books of the same name !!!!! ] . These are as close to_pure_Howard around at present and include all REH's stories , and fragments [ later completed by others ] taken from the original pulp texts in some cases . If you can't find them anywhere else they are available through <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk" target="_blank">www.amazon.co.uk</a>

Terry


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[terry]

OK , _rumour_ from Lying in the Gutters <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13" target="_blank">http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13</a> is that Kurt Busiek is going to be the Conan writer . Anyone know if there's any truth to this ?

More importantly if he is , does he know anything about Conan / Robert E Howard apart from the Arnie movies 'cos I sure hope so :-) !!!!!

Also the official CPI / Paradox Conan Site and Message Board is now up and running at <a href="http://www.conan.com/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.conan.com/index.shtml</a>

Although the site doesn't have much info. up yet the message board is on the go.

Terry

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[terry]

Busiek is confirmed and he's discussing his plans over at <a href="http://www.comicon.com/pulse/" target="_blank">http://www.comicon.com/pulse/</a>

Terry

[Matt Hawes]

Conan has always had a following. I'm glad *somebody* has decided to publish the character in comics again! :)

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[terry]

Hi all , sorry if you see this more than once as I'm sending it to various boards.

Just to let you know if you're in the UK , or Europe and can get it on satellite , that BBC2 are showing The Whole Wide World next Friday afternoon at 13.05 .

Terry

[Lestat de Lioncourt]

So does anyone actually know that a certain KURT BUSIEK, is writing Conan?

[Alex Clarke Kent]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lestat de Lioncourt:
<strong>So does anyone actually know that a certain KURT BUSIEK, is writing Conan?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I guess you missed Terry's post above.

<a href="http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000767" target="_blank">Busiek the Barbarian</a>

[Kurt Busiek]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lestat de Lioncourt:
<strong>So does anyone actually know that a certain KURT BUSIEK, is writing Conan?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I heard that!

kdb

[fistofkhonshu]

Hey Kurt! Don't make him suck! I want to see the original S.O.B. kicking some serious ass and bedding some bodacious babes. I never read anything I liked after Savage Sword went away.

[Kurt Busiek]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by fistofkhonshu:
<strong>Hey Kurt! Don't make him suck!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's a deal.

kdb

[OM]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lestat de Lioncourt:
<strong>So does anyone actually know that a certain KURT BUSIEK, is writing Conan?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...This is so cromulent. Of course, what I really want to know is when the Astro City crossover happens. I mean, if Marvel sent Conan to the 20th in a What If? issue, why couldn't Kurt one-up them just this once? :-)

[terry]

THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME ONE TPB
ROY THOMAS and BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH

On sale September 17, SC, 144pg, FC, $15.95

In the early 1970s, Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian exploded on to the comics scene. Writer Roy Thomas teamed with a young artist named Barry Smith, and together the two mapped out some of the most stirring and memorable Conan adventures to come along since those written by Howard himself. Over the course of their 24 issue run together, Thomas and Smith defined Conan for a generation of comics readers, and now those stories are collected here in a series of trade paperbacks. Featuring completely remastered color and text corrections, and containing material not available for nearly thirty years, these books are the perfect companions to the upcoming all-new Conan series from Dark Horse

From <a href="http://classic.newsarama.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=00059 1" target="_blank">http://classic.newsarama.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=00059 1</a>