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Okay time to give the Conan thread its periodic Well, as everyone knows, the first Conan prototype in comics was the Starr the Slayer story by BWS in Chamber of Darkness 4 (April 1970)..... or was it? Two decades earlier, in June 1950, Avon published a one-shot SF/fantasy comic called Out of This World. This is a tough book to find, a Gerber 8, but it is notable for containing what OSPG considers the first "sword and sorcery" story in comics. This story is a none-too-subtle knock-off of Conan called "Crom the Barbarian." It is drawn by Frazetta mentor John Giunta and written by none other than Gardner F. Fox, who must have been a reader of REH's stories in Weird Tales. I posted this story in thw GA forum a couple of years ago, but I thought some of you in General might like to read it as well. Enjoy!

Gorgeous books as always, Dwight!

Scrooge, that's really cool!

Nice! Haven't seen that one before.

BB and Scrooge, you guys have been posting some great books!

Nice!

Here is what I believe is a complete list of all of Howard's contributions to Weird Tales. If any sees any mistakes let me know and I'll correct them. I'll work on the other titles in which he was published as soon as I can. This is adapted fromhttp://www.howardworks.com (I added some annotations) Weird Tales Jul 1925 - "Spear and Fang" (Howard's first published work) Aug 1925 - "In the Forest of Villefere" Apr 1926 - "Wolfshead" (Cover story; First REH Cover) Jan 1927 - "The Lost Race" Jun 1927 - "The Song of the Bats" (poem) Oct 1927 - "The Ride of Falume" (poem) Jan 1928 - "The Riders of Babylon" (poem) Feb 1928 - "The Dream Snake" Mar 1928 - "The Hyena" Apr 1928 - "Rememberance" (poem) May 1928 - "Sea Curse" Jul 1928 - "The Gates of Ninevah" (poem) Aug 1928 - "Red Shadows" (First appearance of Solomon Kane; cover story) Sep 1928 - "The Harp of Alfred" (poem) Dec 1928 - "Easter Island" (poem) Jan 1929 - "Skulls in the Stars" (Solomon Kane) Feb 1929 - "Crete" (poem) Apr 1929 - "Moon Mockery" (poem) Jun 1929 - "Rattle of Bones" (Solomon Kane) Jul 1929 - "Forbidden Magic" (poem) Aug 1929 - "The Shadow Kingdom" (First appearance of Kull; First "Sword and Sorcery" story?) Sep 1929 - "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" (Kull) Sep 1929 - "The Moor Ghost" (poem) Oct 1929 - "Skull-Face, Part 1" Nov 1929 - "Skull-Face, Part 2" Dec 1929 - "Skull-Face, Part 3" Jan 1930 - "Dead Man's Fate" (poem) Feb 1930 - "The FearsomeTouch of Death" May 1930 - "Shadows on the Road" (poem) Jun 1930 - "The Moon of Skulls, Part 1" (Solomon Kane; cover story) Jul 1930 - "The Moon of Skulls, Part 2" (Solomon Kane) Aug 1930 - "The Hills of the Dead" (Solomon Kane) Sep 1930 - "Black Chant Imperial" (poem) Nov 1930 - "Kings of the Night" (First appearance of Bran Mak Morn) Feb 1931 - "The Son of the Mad Minstrel" (poem) Apr 1931 - "The Children of the Night, Part 1" (Bran Mak Morn) May 1931 - "The Children of the Night, Part 2" (Bran Mak Morn) Sep 1931 - "The Footfalls Within" (Solomon Kane) Oct 1931 - "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" Nov 1931 - "The Black Stone" Dec 1931 - "The Dark Man" (Bran Mak Morn; Cover Story) Feb 1932 - "The Thing on the Roof" Mar 1932 - "The Last Day" (poem) May 1932 - "The Horror from the Mound" Jul 1932 - "Wings in the Night" (Solomon Kane) Aug 1932 - "Arkham" (poem) Sep 1932 - "An Open Window" (poem) Nov 1932 - "Worms of the Earth" (Bran Mak Morn) Dec 1932 - "The Phoenix on the Sword" (First of appearance Conan) Jan 1933 - "The Scarlet Citadel" (Conan) Mar 1933 - "The Tower of the Elephant" (Conan) Apr 1933 - "Autumn" (poem) (Conan) May 1933 - "Moonlight on a Skull" (poem) Jun 1933 - "Black Colossus" (Conan; Cover Story) Jul 1933 - "The Man on the Ground" Sep 1933 - "The Slithering Shadow" (Conan; Cover Story) Oct 1933 - "The Pool of the Black One" (Conan) Dec 1933 - "Old Garfield's Heart" Jan 1934 - "Rogues in the House" (Conan) Feb 1934 - "The Valley of the Worm" Apr 1934 - "Shadows in the Moonlight" (Conan) May 1934 - "Queen of the Black Coast" (Conan; Cover Story; First time Conan himself is depicted on a cover) Jun 1934 - "The Haunter of the Ring" Aug 1934 - "The Devil in Iron" (Conan; Cover Story, Conan depicted on cover) Sep 1934 - "The People of the Black Circle, Part 1" (Conan; Cover Story) Oct 1934 - "The People of the Black Circle, Part 2" Nov 1934 - "The People of the Black Circle, Part 3" Dec 1934 - "A Witch Shall be Born" (Conan; Cover Story) Feb 1935 - "The Grisly Horror" Mar 1935 - "Jewels of Gwahlur" (Conan) May 1935 - "Beyond the Black River, Part 1" (Conan) Jun 1935 - "Beyond the Black River, Part 2" (Conan) Nov 1935 - "Shadows in Zamboula" (Conan; Cover story) Dec 1935 - "The Hour of the Dragon, Part 1" (Conan; Cover Story, Conan depicted on cover) Jan 1936 - "The Hour of the Dragon, Part 2" (Conan) Feb 1936 - "The Hour of the Dragon, Part 3" (Conan) Mar 1936 - "The Hour of the Dragon, Part 4" (Conan) Apr 1936 - "The Hour of the Dragon, Part 5" (Conan) Jun 1936 - "Black Canaan" Jul 1936 - "Red Nails, Part 1" (Conan; Cover Story; Last story to be published while REH was alive) Aug/Sep 1936 - "Red Nails, Part 2" (Conan) Oct 1936 - "Red Nails, Part 3" (Conan) Nov 1936 - "Black Hound of Death" Dec 1936 - "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" Feb 1937 - "Dig Me No Grave" Aug 1937 - "The Soul Eater" (poem) Sep 1937 - "The Dream and the Shadow" (poem) Oct 1937 - "Which Will Scarcely Be Understood" (poem) Nov 1937 - "Futility" (poem) Feb 1938 - "Haunting Columns" (poem) Mar 1938 - "The Poets" (poem) Apr 1938 - "The Singer in the Mist" (poem) May 1938 - "Pigeons from Hell" Jul 1938 - "Ships" (Poem) Aug 1938 - "Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die" (poem) Sep 1938 - "A Thunder of Trumpets" Nov 1938 - "Recompense" (poem) Dec 1938 - "The Ghost Kings" (poem) Feb 1939 - "The King and the Oak" (poem) Mar 1939 - "Desert Dawn" (poem) May 1939 - "Almuric, Part 1" Jun/Jul 1939 - "Almuric, Part 2" Jun/Jul 1939 - "The Hills of Kandahar" (poem) Aug 1939 - "Almuric, Part 3"

what is that? First REH Weird Tales? ALL of us don't know... Does anyone have a list (or link) of all the Weird Tales with REH/Conan Covers/Stories in em? I'd love to delve into collecting some pulps, Gnomes, and REH Grants. Who published that Rare REH Skull-Face book? Check this out Neil: Robert E. Howard: A Collector's Descriptive Bibliography (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Howard-Collectors-Descriptive-Bibliography/dp/0786426462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221339552&sr=1-1 I bought it at SDCC from Bud Plant. (thumbs u Sweet! How is it? Buy it (thumbs u Done! (thumbs u

what is that? First REH Weird Tales? ALL of us don't know... Does anyone have a list (or link) of all the Weird Tales with REH/Conan Covers/Stories in em? I'd love to delve into collecting some pulps, Gnomes, and REH Grants. Who published that Rare REH Skull-Face book? Check this out Neil: Robert E. Howard: A Collector's Descriptive Bibliography (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Howard-Collectors-Descriptive-Bibliography/dp/0786426462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221339552&sr=1-1 I bought it at SDCC from Bud Plant. (thumbs u Sweet! How is it?

what is that? First REH Weird Tales? First appearance of Conan (in "The Phoenix on the Sword") Grail of Grails for a Conan/REH collector You know I haven't seen a comprehensive list anywhere of all of REH's publications. I'll try and put one together and post it in this thread - it would be useful for me as well. The Weird Tales stories are faily easy to list, but some of his work in other pulps like Oriental Stories, Golden Fleece, Fight Stories, etc. might be more difficult. Skull-Face and Others was published by Arkham House in 1946. It's the first REH book that is actually accessible to collectors. A Gent from Bear Creek was published in book form in the UK in late 30s, but only 5 or 6 copies are known to exist, and half of those are in library collections. Edit: Here is useful article originally published in Firsts magazine on collecting Howard first editions: http://www.donherron.com/collect_reh.html

No kidding? That's cool! These are a little late for the GA forum, but this seems like an appropriate place to put them. A couple of British digests from 1961-62 with Elric stories. The 47 is the first appearance of Elric in print. And here is the first Elric book from 1962, UK true first edition, first state, unclipped dj.

Later in 1962, the first Elric book The Stealer of Souls was released. This is the true UK first edition. The unsold copies of this print run were shipped to the US with the shilling price clipped from the dj and replaced with a price sticker in US$ and the name of the US publisher stamped on the title page. Because of this, the original unstamped, unclipped UK version is fairly scarce.

Earlier in this thread we had an fun Elric/Moorcock discussion so I thought I'd post a few cool recent Elric related arrivals. Elric first appeared in print in 1961 in issue 47 of the British digest Science Fantasy: Another early Elric cover/story from early 1962:

And a de Camp story too - cool!

Wow! That is an incredible copy! That red spine is sweet!

Pulps definitely seem to bring in more on the auction sites as opposed to ebay. A much nicer copy than this one went for $500-600 a few months ago on ebay and I really wish I had gone after it, but I was tapped at the time. This issue and other key pulps have really done well at heritage the last few years. It's great to see Clink getting in on the pulp action. On a related note, I was surprised to see that 1927 Amazing Stories Annual didn't make reserve. That is a super rare book.

Great run! And welcome to the boards! (thumbs u Jeff

Nice pick up! I did put in what I thought was a conservative but realistic bid on the Weird Tales, but got beat out by a good margin. I was surprised at what it went for actually, with the tape and trimming.

That is very cool!

Great books, Bill and BB!

Still getting caught up in this thread after being gone for a few weeks. Love the Oriental Stories and Magic Carpets! I'm just now on the Superman letter and the link to the lawsuit documents - this looks like it's going to be good!

I've never heard of these either - looks like a fun book. Is it science fiction?

October MC 1 for me too.