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drrockso20 posted:Reminds me that I need to read the old Marvel comics for Conan and the other Howard characters who got comics from them I would recommend the Savage Sword of Conan titles first. These were black and white magazine format and had superior artwork in my opinion to the regular monthly Marvel line. A lot of the stories were lifted straight from Howard ("The Tower of the Elephant" was in November '77) and aside from Conan there were often cool poems, quick and dirty shorts, and occasionally Kull or Solomon Kane would get a feature. Also, I think because SSOC was a magazine format and didn't have to conform to the Comics Code meaning you get way more violence and nudity for that time. I have a lot of happy memories sitting at my grandmother's house drinking Dr. Pepper and binging on SSOC for days.
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Marvel had at least 3 different Conan series running at the same time during the 1970s-80s. Was Savage Sword of Conan the Howard & DeCamp stories? I liked those much better than the Marvel run (which I think eventually put Conan on his promised throne and then he got boring).
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Why does it look like his right hand has been chopped off in the snake picture?
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Davros1 posted:His hands are clenched into fists? OOOOH!! I see now, it was a weird perspective thing for me for whatever reason because the arm is extending backwards toward the viewer. Context: Those images make me want to dig up my old SSOC issues. Did Howard used the Picts a lot in his books, or was that pretty much a thing from the latter material?
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