CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #5 (OF 5)

Now available!

Saladin Ahmed (Writer) • Luke Ross (Art)
Cover by Mahmud Asrar

MEPHISTO TRIUMPHANT?!
• The trail leading to the SERPENT CROWN has brought MEPHISTO’s ultimate goal within reach!
• As CONAN makes his last-ditch effort to stake his claim on the treasure, NYLA SKIN makes a daring move!
• But will the Serpent Crown’s newly revealed secret doom Conan to a fate undreamed of?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

New at Howard Works

Providence Press (Italian)
Providence Tales n.5
Featuring:  "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" (2)
http://howardworks.com/ProvidenceTales5-ProvidencePress.html

Elara  (Italian)
El Borak, avventuriero del deserto
Featuring:  
"The Daughter of Erlik Khan"
"The Coming of El Borak"
"Swords of the Hills"
"Blood of the Gods"
"The Country of the Knife"
"Son of the White Wolf"
http://howardworks.com/El_Borak-avventuriero_del_deserto-Elara.html

Ablaze Publishing
The Cimmerian: People of the Black Circle #1 (of 3)
Featuring:
"The People of the Black Circle" (Part 1 of 3) (graphic adaptation) 
"The People of the Black Circle" (Part 1 of 3) 
http://howardworks.com/TheCimmerian-PeopleoftheBlackCircle1-Ablaze.html

Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 177
Featuring:
"Exile of Atlantis" (excerpt only)
"By This Axe I Rule!" (excerpt only)
"The Striking of the Gong" (excerpt only)
"The Shadow Kingdom" (excerpt only)
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom" (excerpt only)
"The King and the Oak" (poem) (excerpt only)
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N177-Marvel.html

 New at Howard Works

Letterelettriche (Italian)
Lost Tales: Sword & Sorcery Numero 3
Featuring:  "A Song of the Race" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/Lost_Tales_Sword_and_Sorcery_Numero_3-Letterelettriche.html

Ithaki Yayinlari (Turkish)
Ejderhanin Saati
Featuring: "The Hour of the Dragon"
http://howardworks.com/Ejderhanin_Saati-Ithaki_Yayinlari.html

Black Stone Press
Swords of Havoc
Featuring articles on REH by Fred Blosser
http://howardworks.com/Swords_of_Havoc-BlackStonePress.html

Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 162
Featuring:
"Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (1, original, poem)
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N162-Marvel.html

Robert E. Howard: A Closer Look
By Charles Hoffman and Marc Cerasini

Now available!
  
In 1987, Charles Hoffman and Marc A. Cerasini published a volume on Robert E. Howard for the acclaimed Starmont Reader’s Guides series. Even then, the book was a pioneering study of Howard’s life and work. In the decades that have followed, a great deal of additional research has been done on the life and times of the inventor of Conan, and the authors have now prepared a radically expanded and updated version of their monograph, taking account of these new discoveries.
 
The book is structured along the lines of the superheroes that Howard created as a means of expressing his admiration for the values of barbarian and pioneer life: Bran Mak Morn, the Pictish chieftain who battles the Romans in Britain; Solomon Kane, the 17th-century Puritan who spans the globe in quest of adventure and the righting of wrongs; King Kull of Valusia, a valiant warrior at the dawn of history; and, of course, Conan of Cimmeria, who embodied Howard’s thirst for untrammeled freedom and the virtues of combat.
 
Hoffman and Cerasini also study Howard’s tales of pure horror, including “Pigeons from Hell,” his other fantasy tales, his poetry, and other elements of his work. All in all, Robert E. Howard: A Closer Look is an invaluable guide to the life and literary output of this powerfully original writer whose work has inspired imitations, film and comic book adaptations, and devoted readers around the world.

Paperback
352 pages
$20.00
Cover art and frontispiece by Rick McCollum. 

Cover design by Daniel V. Sauer (draft cover shown)

Hippocampus Press

TwoMorrows Publishing 
BACK ISSUE #121

50th Anniversary of CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1 

Now available!

Back Issue #121 is our Conan and the Barbarians issue, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan #1! The Bronze Age Barbarian Boom, Top 50 Marvel Conan stories, Marvel's Not-Quite Conans (from Kull to Skull), Arak-Son of Thunder, Warlord action figures, Gray Morrow's Edge of Chaos, and Conan the Barbarian at Dark Horse Comics. Joining Roy Thomas are Kurt Busiek, Ernie Colon, Chuck Dixon, Mike Grell, Ron Randall, Dann Thomas, Timothy Truman, Marv Wolfman, and many more.

Featuring the never-before-published alternate cover for Marvel's Conan #9, from 1971.

Magazine, 84 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, Full Color, $9.95

TwoMorrows Publishing

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF BLACK CIRCLE #1
Now available!

(Writer) Robert E. Howard, Sylvain Runberg 

(Art) Jae Kwang Park
Cover A: Jae Kwang Park
Cover B: Frederick Rambaud
Cover C: Mirka Andolfo
Cover D: Belen Ortega
Cover E: Fritz Casas

Robert E. Howard's Conan is brought to life UNCENSORED!

Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story as he intended!

In the kingdom of Vendhya, the king has just died, struck down by the spells of the black prophets of Yimsha. The king's sister, Yasmina, decides to avenge him…and contacts Conan, then chief of the Afghuli tribe. But several of Conan's warriors have just been killed by the men of the kingdom of Vendhya, further complicating the matter. The princess thought she could use the Cimmerian, but rather it is she who will serve his interests...

Sylvain Runberg and prodigious designer/illustrator Jae Kwang Park adapt one of the most ambitious and complex Conan stories of Robert E. Howard. An adventure where epic battles, witchcraft and plots mingle in a mystical and scary Orient. Where revenge is an art…

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

Ablaze Publishing

Upcoming REH related publications.
Target ship dates as of 09/01/2020
All dates are subject to change.

Available since last update (8/01/2020)
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #4(OF 5)(Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS 

      EPIC COLLECTION - THE COMING OF CONAN TPB

ROBERT E HOWARD RATTLE OF BONES (Clover Press)
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOL. 2: TO DINE WITH DOOM TPB (Marvel)
SOLOMON KANE: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC 

In your future

09/02/2020
BACK ISSUE #121 [50th Anniversary of CONAN #1] (TwoMorrows) 
THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE #1 (Ablaze)

09/16/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #5(OF 5)(Marvel)

09/23/2020
THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE #2 (Ablaze)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 4 HC (Marvel)

09/30/2020
CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: HORRORS BENEATH THE STONES TPB (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #12 (Marvel)

10/07/2020
THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE CONAN UNIVERSE ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Marvel)

10/14/2020
ROBERT E HOWARD RATTLE OF BONES (Clover Press)
[Date available in comic shops. Available now from the publisher]
 
10/21/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #15 (Marvel)
THE MARVEL ART OF SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN HC (Marvel)

10/28/2020
THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE #3 (Ablaze)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #13 (Marvel) 

11/11/2020
THE CIMMERIAN VOLUME 1: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST & RED NAILS (Ablaze)

11/18/2020 
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY KURT BUSIEK OMNIBUS(Marvel)

11/25/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16 (Marvel)
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN TPB (Marvel)

01/06/2021
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: 

    THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 4 (Marvel)

02/16/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY AARON & ASRAR HC (Marvel)

03/03/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 5 (Marvel)

03/23/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS EPIC COLLECTION - HAWKS FROM THE SEA TPB

2021 
KULL: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 (Marvel)
KING CONAN #1 (Marvel)

To Be Announced
CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAGUE (Titan)
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The following previously solicited comics are missing in action.
DARK AGNES #3(OF 5)(Marvel)
DARK AGNES #4(OF 5)(Marvel)
DARK AGNES #5(OF 5)(Marvel)