Sunday, June 26, 2022

New at Howard Works

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el vengador

Featuring:   "The Hyborian Age"  (Part 2 of 2)
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_vengador-Editorial_Bruguera.html



Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el conquistador

Featuring:   "Conan the Conqueror"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_conquistador-Editorial_Bruguera.html



Fiction House Press
Magazine of Horror #22 

Featuring:  "Worms of the Earth"
http://howardworks.com/magazineofhorror22-FictionHousePress.html



Dennis McHaney
The Howard Review #10 [Distributed in REHUPA #208]

Featuring:  "Eternity" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/HowardReview10-REHupa208-DennisMcHaney.html



Dark Horse Comics
Conan #30

Featuring: 
"The Hall of the Dead"  (Part 2 of 3, graphic adaptation)
To Harold Preece, pm, September 28, 1928,
"Tunney sure gave Heeney a tough beating . . ." (brief excerpt)
http://howardworks.com/Conan30-DarkHorse.html



Friday, June 24, 2022

Ablaze Publishing coming in September!

BÊLIT & VALERIA: SWORDS VS. SORCERY #5
Writer: Max Bemis 
Art: Rodney Buchemi 
Cover A: John Royle
Cover B: Usanekorin
Cover C: Jeff Spokes
Cover D: Rodney Buchemi

ROBERT E. HOWARD'S HYBORIAN AGE UNLEASHED! 

See its true skull-cracking nature, its unrestrained blood-splattering violence, mayhem, and sexuality!
Two she-pirates, one recently dead, and the other less than willing are all that stands between chaos and order.

A god gone mad. A woman possessed. The ultimate showdown between good and evil manifests in an epic battle between Belit, Valeria, and someone that they were calling a friend. The end result of which will lead to the discovery of something beyond the comprehension of even the most powerful wizards in all of Hyperborea…and far, far beyond! 

Full Color, 7x10, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.













Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Titan Comics acquires the rights to publish REH properties!

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Titan Comics has nabbed the comics rights to Conan the Barbarian and other creations of fantasy author Robert E. Howard, entering into a co-publishing venture with  Heroic Signature, the intellectual property house that owns the rights.

The deal covers not just comics but graphic novels as well as re-mastered archives, including the omnibus program previously published by Marvel Comics. 

Titan plans to put out a line of original comic books based on Howard’s creations, starting with a new Conan the Barbarian title as an ongoing series set to launch in May 2023 to coincide with Titan Comics’ tenth anniversary. Mini-series based on sword-and-sorcery characters such as Puritan evil vanquisher Solomon Kane, red-haired mercenary Dark Agnes, and Atlantean adventurer Kull the Conqueror are due to follow.

The comics deal between the two companies comes after last year’s book deal regarding Conan for all new novels, short stories and illustrated art books. The first project from that pact is the novel Conan: Blood of the Serpent, due to hit bookstores Oct. 18, followed Conan the Barbarian: The Official Story of the Film, a behind-the-scenes hardback retrospective book due out Nov. 2, 2022.



Sunday, June 19, 2022

New at Howard Works

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el usurpador

Featuring: 
"The Treasure of Tranicos"
"Wolves Beyond the Border"
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_usurpador-Editorial_Bruguera.html



Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el vagabundo

Featuring: 
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The Flame Knife"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_vagabundo-Editorial_Bruguera.html



Fiction House Press
Fantasy Magazine #1 (Facsimile reprint)

Featuring:  "The Black Stranger"
http://howardworks.com/FantasyMagazine1-FictionHousePress.html



Tom Munnerlyn
Austin Volume 4 Number 1 [Distributed in REHUPA #121]

Featuring: 
"Aha! Or the Mystery of the Queen’s Necklace"
"Unhand Me, Villain!"
http://howardworks.com/AustinV4N1-REHupa121-TomMunnerlyn.html




Dark Horse Comics
Conan #29

Featuring:  "The Hall of the Dead"  (Part 1 of 3, graphic adaptation)
http://howardworks.com/Conan29-DarkHorse.html




Wednesday, June 15, 2022

2022 REHF Awards Results

The Robert E. Howard Foundation is pleased to announce the winners for the 2022 Robert E. Howard Awards:

Atlantean Award:  Todd Vick: Renegades and Rogue: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard

Valusian Award:  Jason M Waltz: Editor: REH Changed My Life

Hyrkanian Award:  Rob Roehm: "Robert E. Howard and the Later Weird Tales", in The Weird Tales Story: Expanded and Enhanced

Cimmerian Award:  Gabriel Momola: "The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race"

Venarium Award: (TIE)   Brian Murphy and Willard M. Oliver

Black Lotus Award:   Rob Roehm: Howard History

Costigan Award:  Jason Ray Carney: Editor: Whetstone: Amateur Magazine of Pulp Sword and Sorcery

Rankin Award:  Bill Cavalier: 2021 Howard Days Poster

Special Awards Winners

Crom Award: Lee Breakiron

Black Circle Award: Charles Hoffman

Congratulations to the winners and to all of the nominees!

Thanks to John Bullard for passing the information along.

Ablaze Publishing
Now available!

THE CIMMERIAN: HOUR OF THE DRAGON #4
Writer: Robert E. Howard, Julien Blondel 
Art: Valentin Sécher
Cover A: Kendrick Lim
Cover B: Garry Brown
Cover C: Marco Rudy
Cover D: Carlos Nieto

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 showdown between Conan and Xaltotun is at hand! But it will take more than just an army to take back the thrones that were stolen. To take on a wizard of such dark power, Conan will need a little magic himself so he can once again be king!

Bonus material included: The original Robert E. Howard story is included!

Full Color, 7x10, 32 pages, $3.99.












Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Steve Harrison's Casebook
by Robert E Howard
Now available!

Rob Roehm (Editor), Don Herron (Introduction)

Presenting the complete collection of Robert E. Howard's private eye stories starring Steve Harrison! Everything in this volume - stories, drafts, synopses - was pulled directly from Howard's own typescripts, including an early draft of "Graveyard Rats," the most terrifying of Harrison's adventures. In these pages you will enter a nightmarish world that blends weird mystery and heart-stopping horror, with Steve Harrison as your guide, a powerful man who is more likely to tear into a fight with a mace or a battle axe than a gun. Harrison has more in common with Howard's sword-swinging Conan than Hammett's Continental Op, but he helps to establish the roots of a noir style that would later find success with Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Harrison might walk the mean streets and back alleys of the 1930s, but he has the soul of a barbaric savage, possessed by the crimson instinct for slaughter.

Hardcover, $33.99