New York, NY—June 15, 2018—Know, oh prince, that in the year 1970, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, sword in hand, slashed his way into four-color life. This January, ahead of Conan’s triumphant return to Marvel Comics, Marvel is proud to announce the release of CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS. Fully remastered, this tome features Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith’s ground-breaking adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s iconic character.
Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1-26 from 1970-1973—as well as material from 1971’s SAVAGE TALES #1 and #4, CHAMBER OF DARKNESS #4, and CONAN CLASSIC #1-11—the CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS omnibus presents each story in all its glory, from covers to letter pages, all painstakingly restored to match the beauty of the original editions.
Relive the early exploits of Conan across shining kingdoms of an age undreamed of, as he becomes thief, slayer and a legend.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 1
Written by ROY THOMAS with BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, JOHN JAKES, MICHAL MOORCOCK and JAMES CAWTHORN
Art by BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH with GIL KANE and JOHN BUSCEMA
Cover by JOHN CASSADAY
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I hope they someday re-release the three What If stories he was in.
I found four: What If? (first series) #13, 39 and 43, and What If? (second series) #16. And NONE of them have ever been reprinted in the U.S.
Roy Thomas did a newspaper strip with John Buscema as well.
Have those ever been reprinted?
Luke Blanchard said:
Dark Horse did a reprint volume. Several reviews at Amazon criticise the reproduction. Strips were earlier reprinted in Conan Saga. Earlier yet John Buscema strips were included in Marvel Treasury Edition #23.
According to Wikipedia Buscema drew the strip less than four months. Then Ernie Chan took over for a year and eight months, and others drew the remaining seven and a half months. The GCD indicates the strips in Marvel Treasury Edition #23 were the first two Buscema daily sequences (an intro. and a story) and one Sunday strip.
Dark Horse has been reprinting the Marvel Conan stories for years now. I wonder what's changed.
"Several reviews at Amazon criticise the reproduction."
I can confirn that... the shoddy reproduction, I mean, not that it was criticized on Amazon (although I'm sure that's true, too).
The page I linked to also lists a number of Marvel Conan graphic novels from the 80s/early 90s. I looked these up the GCD, and was surprised to find it doesn't list any of them as having been reprinted in the US.
The Witch Queen of Acheron - Don Kraar, Gary Gwapisz and Art Nichols
Conan the Reaver - Don Kraar and John Severin
Conan of the Isles - the title story was a reprint of a Thomas/Buscema/misc. Lin Carter adaptation from Conan Annual #7; the GCD says the volume also had two new stories of similar length by Roy Thomas, John Buscema and Dave Simons
The Skull of Set - Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy and Gary Martin
The Horn of Azoth - Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Mike Docherty and Tony DeZuniga: an adaptation of Conway's and Thomas's Conan the Destroyer treatment
Conan the Rogue Roy Thomas and John Buscema
The Ravagers Out of Time Roy Thomas, Michael Docherty and Alfredo Alcala: a Conan, Red Sonja, King Kull team-up
Maybe when the What If stories were collected the rights from the Howard estate had expired. When I was picking up the Conan TPBs I was mainly interested in the Barry Smith run. I guess they were from Dark Horse. I'd have to pull them out to see.
Windsor-Smith drew the first 24 issues of the comic book, and had a story in the first three issues of the original Savage Tales magazine. He may have done some more here and there. Dark Horse has certainly reprinted the first 24 -- the DH reprints of the first Marvel series is complete as Chronicles of Conan (34 volumes), so you'd want the early ones. Not sure if they've reprinted the magazine work.
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