Break out the broadswords…
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Hey, didja hear the news? Conan the Barbarian is returning to Marvel Comics next year.
Of course, his most storied comics run was at the House of Ideas, mostly during the Bronze Age, from 1970 to 1993.
So, to celebrate, here are 13 COVERS by some of the Cimmerian’s greatest Marvel artists. And perhaps I’ll follow up with The Savage Sword of Conan:
Barry Windsor-Smith pencils and John Verpoorten inks
John Buscema pencils, Ernie Chan inks
Gil Kane
Windsor-Smith
Gil Kane pencils, Vince Colletta inks
Buscema
Paul Smith
Windsor-Smith
Buscema
Ernie Chan
Jack Kirby pencils, Joe Sinnott inks. With alterations by John Romita.
Buscema and Chan
Windsor-Smith
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Cover images and credits from the barbaric Grand Comics Database.
January 13, 2018
Don’t know what this means for the future of Conan, I mean, I’m pleased to hear this and all, but the past Marvel Conan work is there. Buscema made it that. He had such a feel for the character and the world. Everything down to a candle on a dirty tavern bar table, to the bar maids who danced and served the drinks,…Buscema was the man. His anatomy, his power, his eye for that world. So great! And when he combined those few issues in “Savage Sword” with Alfred Alcala it took it to another level (despite Buscema’s objections to his inking as I’ve read – it was transcendent art) Here’s hoping they can find someone out there to do it justice.
I’m still wondering about that Conan movie that’s been teased for so long. Really set my imagination in motion from the suggestion of it in the first movie. “With a furrowed brow Conan wore the crown upon his head, but that is another story.” Let’s see it.
April 30, 2020
I feel the savagery of Conan on those covers. 🙂