Posted By Dan Greenfield on Nov 1, 2018 | 2 comments

SNEAK PEEK: Marvel celebrates the barbarian’s return with a series of covers in December and January…

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Conan the Barbarian’s return to Marvel — where he made his bloody bones as a comics star in the ’70s — has the House of Ideas hopping.

Come December, the publisher will be releasing a series of 10 variant covers showcasing everyone’s favorite Cimmerian squaring off against the heroes of the Marvel Universe. Then, in January, it’ll be Conan vs. a series of villains.

Here are seven of them (sans final trade dress), released Thursday:

Butch Guice

Mike McKone

Gerald Parel

InHyuk Lee

Goran Parlov

Greg Smallwood

Mark Bagley

Others — as-yet-unreleased — include:

December

Amazing Spider-Man #11, by Giuseppe Camuncoli

Avengers #11, by Carlos Pacheco

Black Panther #7, by Richard Isanove

Deadpool #7, by Marc Laming

Thor #8, by Patch Zircher

Uncanny X-Men #6, by J. Scott Campbell

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January

Amazing Spider-Man #14, by Greg Land

Captain America #7, by Dave Johnson

Immortal Hulk #12 (to be announced)

Tony Stark: Iron Man #8, by Valerio Schiti

Uncanny X-Men #8, by Dale Keown

Venom #10, by Humberto Ramos

X-Force #2, by Jerome Opena