Sunday, September 30, 2018

Marvel Conan Comics - Update!

Marvel Editor-In-Chef C.B.Cebulski attended Heroes Con Madrid 2018 this past week where he  talked about the return of Conan to Marvel.

We know of January’s launch of Conan the Barbarian by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar and Matt Wilson with covers by Esad Ribic. We now have confirmation of two more ongoing Conan titles.

Savage Sword of Conan will be launching in February.
Age Of Conan will be launching in March.

Creative teams were not revealed.
No word on the format of Savage Sword of Conan (black & white or color).


Saturday, September 29, 2018

Conan TV Series

Amazon has cancelled the Conan TV series that was in development.
This change has been attributed to a change in management at Amazon.

The Conan series project had Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, and Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield on board, along with Pathfinder Media and Endeavor Content.

Condal’s Conan aimed to retell the classic story by returning to Howard’s literary origins. This treatment finds the title character driven out of his tribal homelands and forced to wander a dangerous world while searching for purpose in a land that sees him as nothing more than a mindless savage.

The show's pilot episode was to adapt The Frost-Giant's Daughter, chronologically the earliest story of Conan's life. The ambition of the series was to adapt all of the REH Conan stories, interspersed with new material forming a serial element to better connect the stories together. The ultimate goal was to cover all of Conan's life up to his reign as King of Aquilonia.


Sunday, September 23, 2018

New at Howard Works

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
L'era di Conan 
Featuring:
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"Black Colossus"
"The Slithering Shadow"
http://howardworks.com/Lera_di_Conan-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html


Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
I Figli della Notte. Racconti dell'Orrore Volume 1
Featuring:
"In the Forest of Villefere"
"A Song of the Werewolf Folk" (poem)
"Wolfshead"
"Up John Kane!" (poem)
"Remembrance" (poem)
"The Dream Snake"
"Sea Curse"
"The Moor Ghost" (poem)
"Moon Mockery" (poem)
"The Little People"
"Dead Man's Hate" (poem)
"The Tavern" (poem)
"Rattle of Bones"
"The Fear That Follows" (poem)
"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" 
"Casonetto's Last Song"
"The Touch of Death"
"Out of the Deep"
"A Legend of Faring Town"  (poem)
"Restless Waters" 
"The Shadow of the Beast"
"The Dead Slaver's Tale" (poem)
"Dermod's Bane"
"The Hills of the Dead"
"Dig Me No Grave"
"The Song of a Mad Minstrel" (poem)
"The Children of the Night"
"Musings" (1, poem)
"The Black Stone"
"The Thing on the Roof"
"The Dweller in Dark Valley" (poem)
"The Horror from the Mound"
"A Dull Sound as of Knocking" (poem)
"People of the Dark"
"Delenda Est"
"The Cairn on the Headland"
http://howardworks.com/I_Figli_della_Notte-Racconti_dellOrroreV1-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html


Fiction House Press
Oriental Stories Volume 2 Number 1
Featuring: "The Sowers of the Thunder"
http://howardworks.com/OrientalStoriesWinter1932-FictionHousePress.html


Marvel Comics  
The Sword of Solomon Kane #6
Featuring:
"Wings in the Night"
"Solomon Kane's Homecoming (1, original)
http://howardworks.com/The_Sword_of_Solomon_Kane6-Marvel.html


Updated at Howard Works
Thanks to Wilhelm Weinrauch (http://weinrauchbooks.com/)
for the scans and information.

Updated the release date to April 1977 as documented in
Roy Squires April 1977 Bulletin.
Added information and a scan of the
Limited Edition Traycase produced for:
A Song of the Naked Lands (1973)
The Gold and the Grey (1974)
Altars and Jesters (1974)
Up John Kane! and Other Poems (1975)

Roy Squires
Up John Kane! and Other Poems
Featuring:
"Up John Kane!" (poem)
"When Death Drops Her Veil" (poem)
"A Dying Pirate Speaks of Treasure" (poem)
"Mad Meg Gill" (poem)
"Dreams" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/upjohnkane-squires.html


Limited Edition Traycase
http://howardworks.com/poems_traycase-squires.html





Friday, September 21, 2018

Pulp Hero Press
ROBERT E. HOWARD: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
By David C. Smith
Coming in October!



Pulp Hero Press
ROY THOMAS BARBARIAN LIFE
Coming in October!

ROY THOMAS BARBARIAN LIFE is the first of two volumes written by Roy Thomas about the "life" of Conan the Barbarian as chronicled in the Marvel comics he scripted during the 1970s. The first volume has 50 chapters, each corresponding to the same-numbered issue of the comic book, and includes a biographical style account of what Conan did in the comic, in comparison to what he did in the REH story on which the comic is based, as well as background information about the people involved in creating the comic, relevant inner workings of Marvel at the time, Roy's working relationship with Glenn Lord, etc.

Publication is anticipated in mid-October.
Cover by Benito Gallego

Thanks to Benito Gallego for the cover scan.



Sunday, September 16, 2018

New at Howard Works

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
Conan. La spada della fenice (Oscar Bestsellers 1471)
Featuring:
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"Black Colossus"
"The Slithering Shadow"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_La_spada_della_fenice-2004-2008-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html



Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
Conan. La spada della fenice [Fantasy Urania #6 (Second Series)]
Featuring:
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"Black Colossus"
"The Slithering Shadow"
http://howardworks.com/Conan-La_spada_della_fenice-FantasyUrania-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html


Carnelian Press
Twilight Echoes No. 1
Featuring:  "The Vale of Lost Women"
http://howardworks.com/TwilightEchoes1-CarnelianPress.html


Marvel Comics
The Sword of Solomon Kane #5
Featuring:  "The Hills of the Dead"
http://howardworks.com/The_Sword_of_Solomon_Kane5-Marvel.html



Updated at Howard Works

Clarified the contents, added a better cover image of the chapbook,
and added an image of the limited hardcover edition.

Thanks to Wilhelm Weinrauch at Wilhelm Weinrauch Rare Books
http://weinrauchbooks.com/  for the new images.

Gibbelins Gazette Publications
The Ghost Ocean
Featuring: 
"The Isle of Hy-Brasil" (poem)
"The One Black Stain" (poem)
"Viking's Vision" (poem)
"To All Sophisticates" (poem)
"Man Am I" (poem)
"Never Beyond the Beast" (poem)
"Shadows from Yesterday" (poem)
"The Ghost Ocean" (poem)
"The Song of the Last Briton" (poem)
"The Gates of Babylon" (poem)
"Lilith" (poem)
"Two Men" (poem)
"Memories of Alfred" (poem)
"To a Woman" (1, poem)
"When the Glaciers Rumbled South" (poem)
"Candles" (poem)
"Shadow Thing" (poem)
"Song of the Pict" (poem)
"The Flood" (poem)
"The Adventurer's Mistress" (1, poem)
http://howardworks.com/ghostocean.html



Saturday, September 15, 2018

Conan le Cimmérien - Au-delà de la rivière noire 
Now available!

Screenwriter: Mathieu Gabella
Designer and Colorist: Anthony Jean

The Pictish country is a dark jungle where the border between civilization and barbarism is thin. One thing only symbolizes it: the black river, which no white man is supposed to have crossed and come back alive. None, except Conan. It is at the heart of this green hell that the Cimmerian meets Balthus, a young peasant volunteer whom he rescues in extremis from the claws of fierce Pictish warriors. Together, they will try to lend a hand to the settlers who settled here on these hostile lands in the last bastion of civilization. With a dozen men, they will have to find the powerful wizard Zogar Sag before he succeeds in uniting the clans and engage his bloody invasion ...

The authors of The Unicorn revive Beyond the Black River , reputed as one of the best stories of Conan. A survivalist and warrior narrative carried away by the relentless pace of Mathieu Gabella's script and the strength of Anthony Jean's stroke.

Language: French
Hardcover, 240 x 320 mm, 64 pages, Full Color, 14.95 €
EAN / ISBN: 9782344012581

Language: French
Hardcover, 275 x 368 mm, 64 pages, Black & White, 29.50 €
EAN/ISBN : 9782344030448