CONAN THE BARBARIAN #4 
Now available!

Jason Aaron (Writer)
Gerardo Zaffino (Art)
Cover by Esad Ribic

KING CONAN REIGNS AS "THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CONAN" CONTINUES!

A hard-fought life has rewarded CONAN with the crown of Aquilonia...
But even a monarch must face the cold embrace of death!
The legendary adventure continues as the CRIMSON WITCH makes good on her threat to King Conan!

PLUS:
The next chapter in the ALL-NEW Conan novella "BLACK STARLIGHT," begun in issue #1!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

Marvel Comics

Hither Came Conan: 
Iron Shadows in the Moon, the Bible, and Dark Horse
By Bob Byrne

New post at the Black Gate blog.
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/03/04/hither-came-conan-iron-shadows-in-the-moon-the-bible-and-dark-horse/

New at Howard Works

Editrice Nord (Italian)
La Leggenda di Conan il Cimmero 
Featuring:
Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936
"I feel indeed honored that you and Dr. Clark . . ."
"The Hyborian Age" (Part 1 of 2)
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"The Hall of the Dead"
"The God in the Bowl"
"Rogues in the House"
"The Hand of Nergal"
"The Bloodstained God"
"The Frost Giant's Daughter"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
"The Snout in the Dark"
"Hawks Over Shem"
"Black Colossus"
"Shadows in the Moonlight"
"The Road of the Eagles"
"A Witch Shall Be Born"   
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The Flame Knife"
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Slithering Shadow"
"Drums of Tombalku"
"The Pool of the Black One"
http://howardworks.com/La_Leggenda_di_Conan_il_Cimmero-Editrice_Nord.html

Editrice Nord (Italian)
Conan il Cimmero  
Featuring:
Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936
"I feel indeed honored that you and Dr. Clark . . ."
"The Hyborian Age" (Part 1)
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"The Hall of the Dead"
"The God in the Bowl"
"Rogues in the House"
"The Hand of Nergal"
"The Bloodstained God"
"The Frost Giant's Daughter"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
"The Snout in the Dark"
"Hawks Over Shem"
"Black Colossus"
"Shadows in the Moonlight"
"The Road of the Eagles"
"A Witch Shall Be Born"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_il_Cimmero-Editrice_Nord.html

Flame Tree Publishing
Swords & Steam Short Stories 
Featuring: "Skulls in the Stars"
http://howardworks.com/SwordsandSteamShortStories-FlameTreePublishing.html

Marvel Comics
Marvel Treasury Edition #15 
Featuring: "The Dark Man" & "Black Colossus"
http://howardworks.com/MarvelTreasuryEdition15-Marvel.html

Updated at Howard Works

Added the cover for the 27 copy bound board edition.
Thanks to Lee Breakiron for the scan.

Dennis McHaney
The Howard Review #1
Featuring:  "The Fearsome Touch of Death"
http://howardworks.com/howardreview1.html

Added a better scan of the cover for the  Turkish Marbled Paper
presentation copies. Thanks to Lee Breakiron for the scan.

Hermanthis Press
The Complete Yellowjacket
Featuring:
"Halt! Who Goes There?"
"After the Game"
"Sleeping Beauty"
"Weekly Short Story"
"Private Magrath of the A.E.F." (poem)
"The Thessalians"
"Ye College Days"
"Cupid vs. Pollux"
"The Reformation: A Dream"
http://howardworks.com/completeyellowjacket.htm

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/