Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter, two established authors who admired Howard's work, engaged in a massive project to organize and clean-up the existing Conan canon, as well as write new stories to fill in chronological gaps. Of all the mythical heroes he wrote about, including the likes of King Kull and Solomon Kane, Conan was the most popular. Before his suicide in 1936 at the age of 30, Howard completed or began more than two dozen Conan stories, 18 of which were published. Sprague De Camp, and Lin Carter), there were several new novels, and at least three comic books: 'Conan the Barbarian', 'King Conan', and 'The Savage Sword of Conan.'Ĭonan began life nearly 70 years ago in the pages of the magazine Weird Tales.

In addition to the dozen 'original' paperbacks detailing Conan's exploits (compilations penned by Howard, L. During those years, the so-called 'Swords and Sorcery' genre was experiencing a boom (in part due to the growth of a new role playing game called 'Dungeons & Dragons' and in part because of the increased number of book titles available in mainstream stores). Howard in the 1930s, was at the height of his popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Conan, the pulp hero created by Robert E. Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandled feet.Ĭonan the Barbarian was one of the most anticipated releases of 1982, especially by those who considered themselves fantasy/science fiction aficionados. Know, O Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of.

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