Conan and Jirel: 
Robert E. Howard and C. L. Moore Part Three 
By Bobby Derie

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.
https://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2019/03/conan-and-jirel-robert-e-howard-and-c-l.html

Upcoming REH related publications.
Target ship dates as of 03/02/2019
All dates are subject to change.

Available since last update
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #3 (Marvel)
CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: OUT OF THE DARKSOME HILLS (Marvel)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #1 (Marvel)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #2 (Marvel)

Cancelled
KULL ANNUAL (IDW)
All retailer orders for KULL ANNUAL have been cancelled.
It is not known if it will be resolicited.
My expectation is that it will not.

In your future

03/6/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #4 (Marvel)
COMIC BOOK CREATOR #19 (TwoMorrows)
Featuring an examination of Frank Frazetta’s Conan work.

03/13/2019
THE AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #1 (Marvel)

03/20/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #3 (Marvel)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 (Marvel)

03/27/2019
CONAN LE CIMMERIEN: LA CITADELLE ECARLATE (Glénat)

04/03/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #5 (Marvel)
CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: THE HEART OF YAG-KOSHA (Marvel)

04/10/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #4 (Marvel)
THE AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #2 (Marvel)

05/01/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #6 (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #1  (Marvel)

05/08/2019
THE AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #3 (Marvel)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #5 (Marvel)

07/24/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS Volume 2 (Marvel)

08/07/2019
THE MARVEL ART OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN

Cimmerian Press
RINGSIDE WITH ROBERT E. HOWARD
By Brian Leno
Now available!

Brian Leno returns with his second Robert E. Howard TriplePunchPack — only this time the emphasis isn’t on literary criticism. The game is biography. The Life of Robert E. Howard. Lives of the Boxers. Both subjects lifelong interests for this award-winning Howard scholar.

Leno establishes those longtime bona fides in “Down the Rabbit Hole,” in which he reveals details of his first trip to Cross Plains — in 1967, when he was eleven years old — riding the initial shock waves of the phenomenon known as the Howard Boom.

Standing inside Howard’s home in 2007, during the annual festival held in honor of the author who created Conan the barbarian, Leno pauses to reflect on many aspects of his life, while also reporting on the fan tumult surging around him. And of course he visits Howard’s grave. He stands in the ruins of the local ice house where Howard once boxed himself.

“Jim Tully and Robert E. Howard: Beggars of Life” broods over the Texan’s fascination with Tully, novelist and Hollywood reporter, once a hobo, a boxer — and during Howard’s lifetime one of the best-selling writers in America. Why is Tully now so completely forgotten while a man who never had a book appear before his early death maintains a lasting international reputation?

“Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Howard and Battling Siki: Typewriters and Fists” covers the life and career of Siki, “Wild Man of the Boulevards,” the first African to win a major boxing championship. This pioneering figure influenced moments in fiction by Hemingway and REH. Hemingway and Howard — both suicides.

(And as an eBook eXtra Leno tosses a new survey into the ring — “A Texas Cowboy in Chicago” — on local fighter “Kid” Dula and Howard’s predictions for his climb to a title. No one else sits at the ringside known to Robert E. Howard with the authority of Brian Leno.)

Print Length: 82 pages
Kindle: $2.99

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Steve Harrison Reconsidered
By William Patrick Maynard

New post at the Black Gate blog.
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/03/01/steve-harrison-reconsidered/

Hither Came Conan: Vale of Lost Women
By Dave Hardy

New post at the Black Gate blog.
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/02/25/hither-came-conan-dave-hardy-on-vale-of-lost-women/

New at Howard Works

Le Livre de Poche (French)
Le Cimmérien (Conan, Tome 1)
Featuring:
"Cimmeria" (poem)
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter"
"The God in the Bowl"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"Black Colossus"
"Iron Shadows in the Moon"
"Xuthal of the Dusk"
"The Pool of the Black One"
"Rogues in the House"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The Phoenix on the Sword" (first submitted draft)
Notes on Various Peoples of the Hyborian Age
"The Hyborian Age"
Untitled Synopsis  "A squad of Zamorian soldiers, led ..."
Untitled Synopsis ("The Scarlet Citadel")
Untitled Synopsis ("Black Colossus")
Untitled  Fragment "The battlefield stretched silent, ..."
Untitled Synopsis "The setting: The city of Shumballa, .."
Untitled Draft "Amboola awakened slowly, ..."
http://howardworks.com/Le_Cimmerian-Le_Livre_de_Poche.html

Le Livre de Poche (French)
L'Heure du Dragon (Conan, Tome 2)
Featuring:
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Hour of the Dragon"
"A Witch Shall Be Born"
Untitled Synopsis ("The People of the Black Circle")
The Story Thus Far... ("The People of the Black Circle")
Untitled Synopsis "Amalric, a son of a nobleman ..."
Untitled Draft  "Three men squatted beside the ..."
Untitled Synopsis ("The Hour of the Dragon")
Notes on "The Hour of the Dragon"
Untitled Synopsis ("A Witch Shall Be Born")
http://howardworks.com/LHeure_du_dragon-Le_Livre_de_Poche.html

Thanks to Marko Fancovic for the tip on this one.

SFera (Croatian)
Parsek #136
Featuring: "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/Parsek136-SFera.html

Marvel Comics
Marvel Treasury Edition #4
Featuring: "Rogues in the House" & "Red Nails"
http://howardworks.com/MarvelTreasuryEdition4-Marvel.html

Savage Sword of Conan #6 Debuts New Creative Team

The creative team of Gerry Duggan and Ron Garney wrap up their run on Savage Sword of Conan in May. Writer Meredith Finch and artist Luke Ross will take over with the series' sixth issue which will be in comic shops this June.

Comic Book Resources

Cover image by David Finch from Comic Book Resources