New at Howard Works

Le Livre de Poche (French) 
Le royaume des chimères
Featuring: 
"The Shadow Kingdom"
"Sword Woman"
"The Dark Man"
"The Black Stone"
"The Valley of the Worm"
"Pigeons from Hell"
"Blood of the Gods"
"The Valley of the Lost" (2)
"Swords of the Northern Sea"
"Worms of the Earth"
http://howardworks.com/Le_royaume_des_chimeres-Le_Livre_de_Poche.html

Le Livre de Poche (French) 
Le seigneur de Samarcande
Featuring: 
"Hawks of Outremer"
"The Blood of Belshazzar"
"Red Blades of Black Cathay"
"The Sowers of the Thunder"
"Lord of Samarcand"
"The Road of Azrael"
"The Lion of Tiberias"
"The Shadow of the Vulture"
"The Road of the Eagles"
"Hawks over Egypt"
"Gates of Empire"
 Recap of Harold Lamb’s "The Wolf Chaser"
 Untitled  "The Persians had all fled . . ."
 Untitled  "He knew de Bracy . . ."
"The Slave Princess"
"The Slave Princess" (synopsis)
Untitled "The wind from the Mediteranean . . ."
"The Track of Bohemund"
"Two against Tyre"
http://howardworks.com/Le_seigneur_de_Samarcande-Le_Livre_de_Poche.html

Ablaze Publishing
The Cimmerian: People of the Black Circle #3
Featuring:  "The People of the Black Circle" (Part 3 of 3)  
http://howardworks.com/TheCimmerian-PeopleoftheBlackCircle3-Ablaze.html

Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 228
Featuring:  "The Lion of Tiberias"
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N228-Marvel.html

Upcoming REH related publications.
Target ship dates as of December 3, 2020
All dates are subject to change.

Date Format = MM/DD/YY

Available since last update (11/02/2020)

THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE #3 (Ablaze)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY KURT BUSIEK OMNIBUS(Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16 (Marvel)
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN TPB (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #14 (Marvel) 

In your future

12/02/2020
SAVAGE AVENGERS #15 (Marvel) 

12/09/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #17 (Marvel)
THE CIMMERIAN: THE FROST-GIANTS DAUGHTER #1 (Ablaze)

12/16/2020
SAVAGE AVENGERS #16 (Featuring Conan)(Marvel) 

12/23/2020
THE CIMMERIAN VOLUME 1: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST & RED NAILS (Ablaze)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #18 (Marvel)
KING-SIZE CONAN #1 (Marvel)

01/06/2021
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 4 (Marvel)

01/13/2020

THE CIMMERIAN: THE FROST-GIANTS DAUGHTER #2 (Ablaze)
CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: THE SONG OF BÊLIT TPB (Marvel)

01/27/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #19 (Marvel)

SAVAGE AVENGERS #17(Featuring Conan)(Marvel) 

02/03/2021
CONAN: EXODUS AND OTHER TALES TPB (Marvel)

02/10/2021
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOL. 3: ENTER THE DRAGON TPB (Marvel)

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

02/17/2021
SAVAGE AVENGERS #18 (Featuring Conan)(Marvel)

02/24/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY JIM ZUB VOL. 1: INTO THE CRUCIBLE TPB (Marvel)

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

03/10/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN EPIC COLLECTION:THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS – HAWKS FROM THE SEA TPB (Marvel)

05/05/2021
KULL THE SAVAGE: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC (Marvel)

2021 

KING CONAN #1 (Marvel)

To Be Announced
CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAGUE (Titan)

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The following previously solicited comics are now cancelled.
DARK AGNES #3(OF 5)(Marvel)
DARK AGNES #4(OF 5)(Marvel)
DARK AGNES #5(OF 5)(Marvel)

SAVAGE AVENGERS #15 (Featuring Conan)
Now available! 

Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Patch Zircher (Art)
Cover by Valerio Giangiordano

While Conan's team is busy trying to take treasure from a dragon, Kulan Gath's forces are poisoning the world's drug supply to summon Shuma Gorath. Black Widow, Wolverine and Son of Satan take on the Priest of Sickles. Ain't no party like a Savage party, and you can't throw a poison drug caper without the Punisher crashing it.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

New at Howard Works

Urco Editora (Galician)
Solomon Kane
Featuring: 
"Red Shadows"
"Rattle of Bones"
"Skulls in the Stars"
http://howardworks.com/SolomonKane-Urco_Editora.html

MS BookS (French)
Les Aventures de Conan le Cimmérien
Featuring: 
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"Rogues in the House"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"Black Colossus"
http://howardworks.com/Les_Aventures_de_Conan_le_Cimmerien-MSbooks.html

Adventure House
Pulp Facsimile: Strange Tales June 1932
Featuring:  "People of the Dark"
http://howardworks.com/StrangeTales5-AdventureHouse.html

Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 224
Featuring:  "The Dwellers Under the Tomb"
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N224-Marvel.html

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16

Now available!

Written by Jim Zub
Art by Roge Antonio
Cover by E.M. Gist
Variant Cover by Cary Nord

THE REVENGE OF CONAN!
* The true nature of the Great Crucible is revealed!
* CONAN has angered the leadership of Uttara Kuru, but he will not be crushed by their punishment so easily!
* The dramatic conclusion to "Into the Crucible: and the start of Conan's next quest!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

CONAN BATTLE FOR SERPENT CROWN TPB
Now available!

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

A deadly quest and a daring heist - in the age of Marvels! Conan wanders the desert - but as he reaches a city, no Stygian temple or Vendhyan fortress greets him. No, something far stranger stands in wait: the lights of Las Vegas! Conan is far from home, and it's time for him to tread the thrones of the Marvel Universe under his sandaled feet! The City of Sin is just the beginning for Conan's solo jaunt as the barbarian finds himself on a quest for a relic that predates even his Hyborian Age: the Serpent Crown of Atlantis! But will his battle for this crown earn Conan his own kingdom or doom him to a nefarious trap laid by Mephisto? 

Collecting CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #1-5.

Trade paperback, 112 pages, Full Color, $15.99

 
The Art of Robert E. Howard: Harold S. De Lay
 By Bill Thom

This is the fourth in a series of articles that provides a showcase for the many fine artists that have illustrated the works of Robert E. Howard over the years.

Previously posted are:
The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones
The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay
The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta
 
Harold S. De Lay
 
Harold De Lay (AKA H. S. Delay, Harold DeLay, Harold S. DeLay) was born in South Charleston, Ohio on May 13, 1876. De Lay settled in Winnetka, Illinois, early in the twentieth century and appears to have lived there for several decades with his wife, Austria, and their children. He left his family in the early 1930s and moved to Astoria, Queens, New York where he lived and worked until he died on August 14, 1950.
 
De Lay attended the Art Institute of Chicago with J.C. Leyendecker among others. By the early 1900s, he had started on a career as a fine artist and a commercial artist, initially illustrating books and magazine covers. A few early credits include illustrations for TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE, 10 STORY BOOK (pulp magazine), THE SHORT-STOP (1914) by Zane Grey and DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY (1906) by Schuyler Staunton (a pseudonym for L. Frank Baum). De Lay also created several illustrations for Elgin Watches in the 1920s.
 
In later years, De Lay moved to advertising and comics while continuing to do magazine work including pulp magazines. He was the primary artist for the pulp GOLDEN FLEECE in the late 1930s, providing covers and interior illustrations. He produced four cover illustrations for WEIRD TALES between 1939 and 1944, along with black and white interior art for 13 issues. De Lay illustrated stories by Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, G. G. Pendarves, Robert Bloch, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Jack Williamson, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, Henry Kuttner, and others.
 
De Lay’s first pulp interior illustration was for "Black Canaan" (WEIRD TALES, June 1936) by Robert E. Howard. He went on to illustrate two additional REH stories in WEIRD TALES: “Red Nails” (WEIRD TALES, July, August-September, October 1936) and “Black Hound of Death” (WEIRD TALES, November 1936). In GOLDEN FLEECE he provided numerous illustrations for two stories by REH: "Black Vulmea's Vengeance" (November 1938) and "Gates of Empire" (January 1939).
 
De Lay wrote, pencilled, and inked comic book covers and stories from 1940 to 1946 while working for Lev Gleason, Centaur Publications, and Novelty Press. De Lay did the art for a comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND, James Fenimore Cooper’s THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, and Jonathan Swift’s GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. He also did some work for Marvel Comics when the company was still known as Timely Comics. He illustrated Microman in THE HUMAN TORCH #2 (1940) and Sub-Earth Man in MYSTIC COMICS #5 (1941).

Harold DeLay/Robert E. Howard Checklist (Initial appearances only)
 
Weird Tales
Volume 27 Number 6 (June 1936) 

“Black Canaan”

Volume 28 Numbers 1, 2, and 3 (July, August-September, October 1936)
“Red Nails”

Volume 28 Number 4 (November 1936)
“Black Hound of Death”

Golden Fleece
Volume 1 Number 2 (November 1938)
"Black Vulmea's Vengeance"
 
Volume 2 Number 1 (January 1939)
"Gates of Empire"
 
References:
The Collector’s Index to WEIRD TALES By Sheldon Jaffrey & Fred Cook

Tellers of Weird Tales (February 8, 2012) by Terence E. Hanley

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Pulpcovers.com

 

All art copyright Harold De Lay and the respective owners.

Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 6 (June 1936) 

“Black Canaan”

 Weird Tales Volume 28 Numbers 1, 2, and 3 (July, August-September, October 1936)

“Red Nails”

Weird Tales Volume 28 Number 4 (November 1936)
“Black Hound of Death”

Golden Fleece Volume 1 Number 2 (November 1938)
"Black Vulmea's Vengeance"

 

The image below is a preliminary of the opening double-page spread for Robert E. Howard's "Black Vulmea's Vengeance," which appeared in the November 1938 issue of GOLDEN FLEECE. It is from the collection of pulp art collector Doug Ellis.

Golden Fleece Volume 2 Number 1 (January 1939)
"Gates of Empire"