New at Howard Works

Argo (Czech)

Král Conan

Featuring:

"The Phoenix on the Sword"

"The Scarlet Citadel"

"The Hour of the Dragon"

http://howardworks.com/Kral_Conan-Argo.html

Borè / You Can Print (Italian)

L'Uomo di Ferro

Featuring:

"The Iron Man"

"They Always Come Back"

"Fists of the Desert"

http://howardworks.com/LUomo_di_Ferro-Bore.html

Adventure House
Pulp Facsimile: Oriental Stories V1N3
Featuring:  "Red Blades of Black Cathay"
http://howardworks.com/orientalstories3-AdventureHouse.html

Glenn Lord
Fear Dunn #1  [Distributed in REHUPA #68]
Featuring:  "A Song for All Women" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/FearDunn1-REHupa68-GlennLord.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur #3
Featuring:   "Jewels of Gwahlur" (Part 3 of 3)
http://howardworks.com/ConanandtheJewelsofGwahlur3-DarkHorse.html

Marvel Comics July REH Solicitations for September
with collections in October!

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #25
Written by Jim Zub, Christopher Priest, Larry Hama & Dan Slott
Art by Cory Smith, Roberto De La Torre, Paul Davidson & Marcos Martín
Cover by Geof Shaw

By Crom and Mitra, it’s been 300 issues since Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith first brought the Barbarian to comics in 1970’s CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1! CONAN’s oversized 300th-issue spectacular kicks off with Jim Zub and Cory Smith’s ongoing saga, as we return to Conan’s much-lauded days sailing with the queen of the seas herself, BÊLIT! But – past, present and future will collide in ways unexpected and strange!

Sharpen your blade for three additional, all-new tales from across Conan history! Dan Slott enters the Hyborian Age with Marcos Martín, for an untold NIGHT OF OBLIVION from Conan’s thieving days.  Larry Hama and Christopher Priest at last return to the saga with their own new stories — from a hotheaded young barbarian in battle to an aged KING CONAN, who must defend his kingdom from the re-emergence of WRAARL, the DEVOURER OF SOULS!

Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99, On sale September 8.

SAVAGE AVENGERS #24
Written by Gerry Duggan
Art by Patch Zircher
Cover by Valerio Giangiordano

Can the unexpected entrance of an old villain help the Savage Avengers overcome the monstrous Kulan Gath? The entire Earth better hope so! 

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 8.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN: 

THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 7 

Written by Christopher Priest With Don Kraar

Penciled by John Buscema & Val Semeiks With Ernie Chan & Mike Docherty

Covers by Leinil Francis Yu & John Buscema

He was the writer that would put Black Panther back on the map of popularity in the late ’90s, but in the ’80s, Christopher Priest was editing—and writing—tales of Conan the Barbarian! The seventh volume in this popular Omnibus series collects the first half of Priest’s run, as the writer assembles a cast of engaging supporting characters around Conan, including the haunted Tetra and the courageous Captain Delmuro, sending them in pursuit of treasure held by the wicked thief, Keiv. Priest also introduces to the color series one of the great super-villains in Marvel’s Conan mythos—the Devourer of Souls. The dark reaver is one of Conan’s most formidable foes, and their legendary battles begin here! 

Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1970) #172-194 & ANNUAL (1973) #10-11. 

Hardcover, Full Color, 680 pages, $125.00, On sale January 26, 2022.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY JIM ZUB VOL. 2:

LAND OF THE LOTUS TPB

Written by Jim Zub with Christopher Priest, Larry Hama & Dan Slott

Penciled by Cory Smith with Roberto de La Torre, Marcos Martin and Paul Davidson

Cover by Geof Shaw

It will take more than chains to keep a Cimmerian down! Conan’s march to Khitai has landed him as a prisoner of the imperial guard. He plans his escape, but what dreaded beasts lurk in this strange land — and what new dangers will impede his quest to return the deadly Tooth of the Nightstar to its rightful master? Conan has a new comrade, but is Meiwei everything she seems? Heng the Insurgent and his roving band of thieves hide a dark secret, and Conan must fight for his life against the bandit king’s deadly power! Will the barbarian have what it takes to survive the land of Khitai — even if it costs his very soul? Also featuring tales celebrating 300 issues of CONAN THE BARBARIAN at Marvel, exploring the past and future of Conan! 

Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2019) #19-25.

Trade paperback, Full Color, 168 pages, $19.99, On sale November 10.

New at Howard Works

Pipoca e Nanquim (Portuguese)
Conan, o Bárbaro - Livro 2
Featuring:
"Rogues in the House"
"Iron Shadows in the Moon"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter"
"The Black Stranger"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_o_Barbaro-Livro2-Pipoca_e_Nanquim.html

Pipoca e Nanquim (Portuguese)
Conan, o Bárbaro - Livro 3
Featuring:
"A Witch Shall be Born"
"The Servants of Bit-Yakin"
"Beyond the Black River"
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"The Hour of the Dragon"
"Red Nails"
Notes on Various Peoples of the Hyborian Age
"The Vale of Lost Women"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_o_Barbaro-Livro3-Pipoca_e_Nanquim.html

Legendary Planet
The Feasting of Swords II: More Epics of Blood and Thunder
Featuring:
"Jewels of Gwahlur"
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"Beyond the Black River"
"Red Nails"
http://howardworks.com/Feasting_of_Swords2-LegendaryPlanet.html

Steve Tompkins
Expecting the Barbarians #8 [Distributed in REHUPA #143] 
Featuring:  "The King and the Oak"  (poem, lines 4-24 only)
http://howardworks.com/ExpectingtheBarbarians8-REHupa143-SteveTompkins.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur #2
Featuring:
"Jewels of Gwahlur" (Part 2 of 3)
"A Dream" (excerpt only)
http://howardworks.com/ConanandtheJewelsofGwahlur2-DarkHorse.html

Robert E. Howard Foundation Press

The new unlimited editions have begun. 

Each of the 20+ volumes will be released in hardcovers with dustcovers as well as trade paperbacks.

First out is the Collected Letters Volume 1 (including a few newly discovered items from the Glenn Lord collection of typescripts).

The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 (hardcover) is ready to go and links will be posted soon. Next will come the trade paperback edition followed by Volumes 2 and 3 of Collected Letters.  

Up next will be a three volume collection of Collected Poetry and so on.

Advance copies of Collected Letters Volume 1 were on sale this past weekend at Howard Days and they sold out. 

Robert E. Howard Foundation Press 
Coming soon!

Cover by Mark Wheatly

Ablaze Publishing
Now available!

THE CIMMERIAN: IRON SHADOWS IN THE MOON #3
Writer: Robert E. Howard, Virginie Augustin
Art: Virginie Augustin 
Cover A: Christian Dibari
Cover B: Virginie Augustin
Cover C: Josep Homs
Cover D: 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!
Conan and Olivia must escape from the island, but that is easier said than done while being pursued by a band of blood thirsty pirates, iron statues that come to life in the moonlight, and something inhumanly strong stalking them in the woods. Time is running out and the enemies are piling up in the epic conclusion of this tale!

Full Color, 7x10, 32 pages, $3.99

ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION AWARDS 
FINAL RESULTS FOR 2020 & 2021

Note: Because the awards were postponed last year, this year members voted on both 2020 awards (for works that appeared in 2019) and 2021 awards (works that appeared in 2020). The results were announced at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas, on Friday, June 11.

THE ATLANTEAN — OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, BOOK 
(NON-ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION)
(Books may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 50,000 words, and must be substantively devoted to the life and/or work of REH. Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible.)

2020 Winner: Bobby Derie. Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others (Hippocampus Press)

2021 Winner: Brian Murphy. Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (Pulp Hero Press) 

2020 finalists:

Fred Blosser. Silken Swords: An Informal Guide to the Women in the Fiction of Robert E. Howard (Pulp Hero Press)

Dierk Günther. History in Robert E. Howard's Fantastic Stories: From an Age Undreamed of to the Era of the Old West and Texas Frontier (Hiroshima University Library/Book Repository)

2021 finalists:

Fred Blosser. The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard's Weird Fantasy (Pulp Hero Press)

Charles Hoffman and Marc Cerasini. Robert E. Howard: A Closer Look (Hippocampus Press)

THE VALUSIAN — OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, BOOK (ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION) 
(Books may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 50,000 words, and must be substantively devoted to the life and/or work of REH. Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible.)

2020 Winner:  Mark Wheatley (ed.). Songs of Giants: the Poetry of Pulp (Insight Studios)

2021 Winner: Ted Abrams & Elizabeth Nee (editors). Rattle of Bones & Other Terrifying Tales (Clover Press)

2020 finalists:

Jeff Vandermeer and Ann Vandermeer (eds.). The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (Knopf Doubleday)

Francisco Arellano and Javier Martín Lalanda (trans.). Canciones De Un Juglar Loco (La Biblioteca del Laberinto)

2021 finalists:

Scott Lee (editor). The Cthulhu Stories of Robert E. Howard (Word Fire Press)

Frank Festa (editor/publisher). Der Mythos des Cthulhu: Erzählungen (Festa Verlag)

THE HYRKANIAN—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, ESSAY (PRINT)
(Essays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays on the life and/or work of REH. Short pieces, interviews, reviews, trip reports, and other minor works do not count.)

2020 Winner: Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney. "By This Pen I Rule: Robert E. Howard as Gatekeeper in the Development of Weird Fiction" (The Dark Man Vol.10, issue 1)

2021 Winner: Karen Joan Kohoutek. “More Than Meets the Eye: The Women Protagonists of the Conan Stories” (The Dark Man Vol. 11, issue 1)

2020 finalists:

Dierk Günther. "Faces of Kane: Exploring the Identity of Robert E. Howard's Puritan Swordsman" (The Dark Man Vol.10, issue 1)

Bobby Derie. "Robert E Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and the Great War" (The Dark Man Vol.10, issue 2)

Karen Joan Kohoutek. "No Refuge in Idealism: Illusion Meets reality in 'Xuthal of the Dusk'" (The Dark Man Vol.10, issue 1)

2021 finalists:

Willard M Oliver. “Robert E. Howard and Jack London’s Martin Eden: Analyzing the Influence of Martin Eden on Howard and his Semi-Autobiography” (The Dark Man Vol. 11, issue 1)

Ralph Norris. “The Coming of Kull” (The Dark Man Vol. 11, issue 1)

THE CIMMERIAN—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, ESSAY (ONLINE)
(Essays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays on the life and/or work of REH. Short blog posts, speeches, reviews, trip reports, and other minor works do not count.)

2020 Winner (Tie): Bob Byrne. editor of the “Hither Came Conan” series on BlackGate.com

2020 Winner (Tie): David C. Smith. "Robert E. Howard as a Writer of Consequence" on DMR Books blog

2021 Winner: John Bullard. “Beyond the Black River”: Is It Really “Beyond the Brazos River”? (Adventures Fantastic. 3 Part Serial) 

2020 finalist:

Tim Dedopulos. "The Life and Death of Robert E. Howard" series on Conan.com

2021 finalists:

Bobby Derie. Unspeakable! The Secret History of Nameless Cults (On An Underwood #5, 31 May 2020)

Jason Ray Carney. “1932, The Year of Conan: Sword and Sorcery and Historical Pessimism” (DMR Books, 26 Oct 2020)

THE VENARIUM — EMERGING SCHOLAR 

2020 Winner: Jason Ray Carney

2021 Winner: John Bullard

THE STYGIAN—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, WEBSITE OR PERIODICAL
(Eligible candidates are limited to print or digital magazines, journals, blogs, or internet sites with substantive material that is primarily devoted to scholarship on the life and works of Robert E. Howard. Websites must have been updated with new content at least once in the previous calendar year. Print periodicals must have had an issue published in the previous calendar year. Non-static social media like Facebook and Twitter would not be eligible.)

2020 Winner: The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies (Editors: Jason Ray Carney and Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney)

2021 Winner: REH World (Editor: Ståle Gismervik)

2020 finalists:

Howard History (Editor: Rob Roehm)

BlackGate.com (Managing editor: Howard Andrew Jones) 

2021 finalists:

The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies (Editors: Jason Ray Carney and Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney) 

Howard History (Editor: Rob Roehm)

The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter (Editor: Lee Breakiron)

THE BLACK LOTUS – OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, MULTIMEDIA
(Eligible candidates have produced a multimedia or audio/visual work or series of works, such as videos, documentaries, podcasts, animation, etc. related to the life and work of REH)

2020 Winner: Ben Friberg - Howard Days 2019 Videos 

2021 Winner: Ben Friberg. “Tour of Robert E Howard Home” (video)

2020 finalists:

Mountain Man: Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins (Director: Stanislav Roud)

The Cromcast (Josh Adkins, Luke Dodd, Jon Larson)

2021 finalists:

The Cromcast (Josh Adkins, Luke Dodd, Jon Larson)

Rusty Burke, Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney. “The Origins of TDM: Interview with the Founding Editor Rusty Burke.” The Pavilion Blog.

THE RANKIN — ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE DEPICTION OF REH’S LIFE AND/OR WORK
(Art must have made its first public published appearance in the previous calendar year.)

2020 Winner: Etienne Le Roux, artist for Conan le Cimmérien - La Citadelle écarlate (Glénat 2019) 

2021 Winner: E. M. Gist, cover artist for Conan the Barbarian #13-17 (Marvel, 2020)

2020 finalists:

Mark Wheatley, artist for Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp

Sana Takeda, cover artist for Age of Conan: Bêlit #1-5 (Marvel, 2019)

2021 finalists:

Gess, artist for Conan le Cimmérien - Les Mangeurs d'hommes de Zamboula (Glénat 2020)

Park Jae Kwang, artist for Conan le Cimmérien - Le Peuple du cercle noir (Glénat 2020)

Andrew C. Robinson, cover artist for King-Size Conan (Marvel, 2020)

THE CROM AWARD

(A Board of Directors vote for special achievements)

2020 Winners: Dierk Günther and Patrice Louinet for receiving Ph.D.s with theses on Robert E. Howard at Hiroshima University and the Sorbonne, respectively.

2021 Winner: Era Lee Hanke

BLACK CIRCLE AWARD – LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

(Individuals who have made significant and long-lasting contributions to REH scholarship, publishing, or the promotion of Howard’s life and works. Eligible candidates must have been publicly involved in Howard-related activities for a minimum of two decades. Sixty percent of the vote is required for induction into the Black Circle)

2020 Winner: Paul Herman

2021 Winner; Arlene Stephenson