Monday, August 2, 2021

What’s in a Name?: 
Discovering the Origin of Solomon Kane’s Name 
by Todd B. Vick


Sunday, August 1, 2021

Upcoming REH related publications.
Target ship dates as of August 1, 2021
All dates are subject to change.

Date Format: MM/DD/YYYY

Available since last update (06/01/2021)
THE CIMMERIAN: IRON SHADOWS IN THE MOON #3 (Ablaze)
THE CIMMERIAN: THE MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA #1 (Ablaze)
THE CIMMERIAN VOLUME 2: 
    THE FROST GIANTS DAUGHTER & THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE (Ablaze)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #22 (Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #23 (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #21(Featuring Conan)(Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #22(Featuring Conan)(Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN EPIC COLLECTION: 
   THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS -- THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN SKULL TPB (Marvel)
SAVAGE SWORD CONAN ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC VOL 05 (Marvel)

In your future

08/04/2021
SAVAGE AVENGERS #23 (Featuring Conan) (Marvel)

08/18/2021
THE CIMMERIAN: THE MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA #2 (Ablaze)

08/25/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #24 (Marvel)
KULL THE DESTROYER: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC (Marvel)

08/2021
ROBERT E. HOWARD IN THE PULPS VOLUME 1:
    ROBERT E. HOWARD AND WEIRD TALES (Old Tiger Press)
THE ROBERT E. HOWARD COLLECTOR VOLUME ONE: 
    ILLUSTRATING ROBERT E. HOWARD  (Old Tiger Press)

09/01/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 6 (Marvel)

09/08/2021
SAVAGE AVENGERS #24(Featuring Conan)(Marvel)

09/28/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #25 (Marvel)

10/06/2021
THE CIMMERIAN: BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER #1 (Ablaze)
KULL THE CONQUEROR: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC 
SAVAGE AVENGERS #25(Featuring Conan)(Marvel)

11/03/2021
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 6 (Marvel)

11/10/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY JIM ZUB VOL. 2:LAND OF THE LOTUS TPB  (Marvel)

11/24/2021
THE CIMMERIAN VOLUME 3: IRON SHADOWS  IN THE MOON & THE MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA (Ablaze)

12/01/2021
CONAN THE BARBARIAN EPIC COLLECTION: 
  THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST TPB (Marvel)

12/15/2021
CONAN: THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE AND OTHER STORIES TPB (Marvel)

01/26/2022
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 7  (Marvel)

2022
ROBERT E. HOWARD ART CHRONLOGY

To Be Announced
KING CONAN #1 (Marvel)
CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAGUE (Titan)





New at Howard Works

Carlos Díaz Maroto y Jorge Carrasco Escudero (Spanish) 
Sueño del Fevre 1

Featuring:  "Dermod's Bane"
http://howardworks.com/Sueno_del_Fevre1-CarlosDiazMarotoyJorgeCarrascoEscudero.html



Carlos Díaz Maroto y Jorge Carrasco Escudero (Spanish) 
Sueño del Fevre 2

Featuring:  "King of the Forgotten People"
http://howardworks.com/Sueno_del_Fevre2-CarlosDiazMarotoyJorgeCarrascoEscudero.html



John Melville
Hyborian Chunterings #6 [Distributed in REHUPA #35] 

Featuring:  "Candles" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/HyborianChunterings6-REHupa35-JohnMelville.html





Ablaze Publishing
The Cimmerian: The Man-Eaters of Zamboula #1

Featuring:
"The Man-Eaters of Zamboula" (Part 1 of 2, graphic adaptation)
"Shadows in Zamboula" (Part 1 of 2)
http://howardworks.com/TheCimmerian-ManEatersofZamboula1-Ablaze.html









Dark Horse Comics
Conan and the People of the Black Circle HC

Featuring:  "The People of the Black Circle" (graphic adaptation)
http://howardworks.com/ConanandthePeopleoftheBlackCircle-HC-DarkHorse.html













Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Robert E. Howard Art Chronology
Kickstarter project now online!


An art history of Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan) publications in pulps, comics and novels! 
Four fully illustrated volumes!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/600766964/robert-e-howard-art-chronology














Sunday, July 25, 2021

New at Howard Works

Cátedra (Spanish)
La reina de la Costa Negra y otros relatos de Conan

Featuring:  
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"Beyond the Black River"
"Red Nails"
http://howardworks.com/La_reina_de_la_Costa_Negra-Catedra.html



Thanks to Rafal Chojnacki for the information on this title.

Klubowe (Polish)
Smoczy krysztal

Featuring:   "Exile of Atlantis"
http://howardworks.com/Smoczy_krysztal-Klubowe.html


DMR Books
Prehistoric Adventures
 
Featuring:  "Spear and Fang"
http://howardworks.com/PrehistoricAdventures-DMRBooks.html



Rich Jervis
Hardwired Hinterland Volume 2 Number 7 [Distributed in REHUPA #130]

Featuring:
"Always Comes Evening" (poem, lines 4-8 only)  
"The Song of a Mad Minstrel"  (poem, lines 25-28 only)  
http://howardworks.com/HardwiredHinterlandV2N7-REHupa130-RichJervis.html




Dark Horse Comics
Conan and the People of the Black Circle #4

Featuring:
"The People of the Black Circle" (Part 4 of 4)
To H. P. Lovecraft, July 1935,
"Thanks very much for the fine post cards . . ." (brief excerpt)
http://howardworks.com/ConanandthePeopleoftheBlackCircle4-DarkHorse.html



Black Stone Press
Swords of Havoc

Featuring: Articles on REH
http://howardworks.com/Swords_of_Havoc-BlackStonePress.html

Updated to add the print edition published in June 2021.





Friday, July 23, 2021

Ablaze Publishing
Coming in October and November!

THE CIMMERIAN: BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER #1
Writer: Robert E. Howard, Mathieu Gabella 
Art: Anthony Jean
Cover A: Clara Tessier
Cover B: Anthony Jean
Cover C: Breno Tamura
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!

The Picte country is an obscure jungle where the border between civilization and barbarism is thin. Only one thing symbolizes it: the Black River, which it is claimed that no white man was able to cross and come back alive. None, except Conan. In the heart of this green hell, the Cimmerian meets Balthus, a young voluntary peasant whom he saves at the last minute from the clutches of fierce Pictish warriors. Together, they will try to lend a hand to the colonists who have established themselves here, on these hostile lands, in the last bastion of civilization. With a dozen men, they will have to find the powerful sorcerer Zogar Sag before he succeeds in uniting the clans and initiating his bloody invasion…

Full Color, 7x10, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale October 6.






THE CIMMERIAN VOLUME 3 
IRON SHADOWS  IN THE MOON & 
THE MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA

Writers: Virginie Augustin and Gess
Art: Virginie Augustin, and Gess 
Cover: Virginie Augustin, and Gess

BY CROM! 
Robert E. Howard's famous Cimmerian UNCENSORED! 
Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story as he intended! 

In Iron Shadows in the Moon, a young woman in danger is pursued by her vile master. Conan, whose family has just been wiped out by this same master, puts an end to the beauty's pursuer and saves her with a blow of his sword. Bound by fate, the couple decides to hit the road together. Their journey takes them to an island where they discover strange ruins inhabited by dark magic. Their paradise-like refuge soon turns into a suffocating nightmare where shadows lurk. Who knows the extent of the dangers that lie there? They will quickly learn that on an island, the biggest threat does not always come from the outside…

In The Man-Eaters of Zamboula, the Cimmerian finds himself in the land of a thousand and one nights! A crossroads of beliefs, languages, and cultures, the mythical trading city of Zamboula is also the scene of many dark legends. Upon paying the city a visit, Conan is warned of the dangers of Aram Baksh's home. It is said that most of the foreigners who stay there disappear under obscure circumstances…and it is precisely there that the Cimmerian is spending the night. But by lifting the veil on these mysterious cases of kidnappings, the Cimmerian will discover another secret, even more terrible, linked to the whole of the city of Zamboula…

BONUS: Includes the original Robert E Howard prose stories and a complete cover gallery!

Hardcover, 7x10, 168 pages, Full Color, $24.99, On sale November 24.



Marvel Comics August REH Solicitations for October
with collections in December!

SAVAGE AVENGERS #25
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 October 6.



CONAN THE BARBARIAN EPIC COLLECTION: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS
QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST TPB

Volume #4 in the Conan the Barbarian Epic Collections
Written by Roy Thomas with Fred Blosser
Penciled by John Buscema with Mike Ploog & Tim Conrad
Cover by John Buscema

In these pages Conan meets the Queen of the Black Coast in one of the most captivating pairings in comics! But first, he teams up with Red Sonja in one of Roy Thomas and John Buscema's finest tales! Then, Conan's travels through the western wastelands bring readers the tear-jerking "Last Ballad of Laza-Lanti," the fearsome threat of Shokkoth and a flashback tale of from the Cimmerian's youth! Next, the saga of Lupalina the Wolf-Woman takes Conan to the castle keep of the death-dealing Unos! Along the way, Conan picks up sidekicks Yusef and Tara and comes face-to-face with his biggest challenge: himself! We conclude with the debut and origin of Bêlit, the pirate queen that would become Conan's partner in love and war. Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1970) #43-59 and material from SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (1974) #1.

Full Color, 360 pages, $39.99, On sale December 1.



CONAN: THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE AND OTHER STORIES TPB

Written by Fred Van Lente, Michael Moreci, Paul Tobin & More
Penciled by Ariel Olivetti, José Luis, Wellinton Alves & More
Cover by Ariel Olivetti

Savage tales of the iconic barbarian! When an agent of the dreaded Black Seers of Yimsha assassinates the King of Vendhya, the king's sister Yasmina inherits the throne — and vows vengeance! But her plans against the Black Seers are derailed when she is kidnapped — by Conan?! Before long the Cimmerian has ruthless mercenaries, vengeance-crazed tribesmen, sinister sorcerers and an entire army hard on his heels — and that's just how he likes it! Plus: Conan's journeys continue, taking him from the Exiled Lands to Hesterm and beyond. Thieves, demons, warriors and more all await him — and all will fall prey to his savage sword! 

Collecting CONAN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE #1-4, CONAN: CHILDREN OF THE SUN, CONAN: EXILES, and material from DARK HORSE PRESENTS (2014) #21 and ROBERT E. HOWARD'S SAVAGE SWORD #1-4 and #6-10.

Full Color, 224 pages, $39.99, On sale December 15.