Dedicated to Robert E. Howard and his greatest creation, CONAN the Barbarian, and all the characters that have appeared in Pulp Fiction, books, magazines, Trade Paperbacks, Graphic Novels, and Comic Book form for nearly 80 years from Marvel Comics, Dark Horse, Cross Plains, Weird Tales, etc. Robert E. Howard and his characters such as CONAN, KULL, SOLOMON KANE, RED SONJA were the subject of articles as well as new stories & art by Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Glenn Lord, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter; Kurt Busiek, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Jordan, Cary Nord, Thomas Yeates, Dave Stewart, etc. Arnold Schwarzeneggar played Conan and later Kevin Sorbo played Kull in the movies.
The Robert E. Howard Stories:
Published in Weird Tales:
The Phoenix on the Sword (Dec 1932);
The Scarlet Citadel (Jan 1933);
The Tower of the Elephant (Mar 1933);
Black Colossus (Jun 1933);
The Slithering Shadow (Sep 1933);
The Pool of the Black One (Oct 1933);
Rogues in the House (Jan 1934);
Shadows in the Moonlight (Apr 1934);
Queen of the Black Coast (May 1934);
The Devil in Iron (Aug 1934);
The People of the Black Circle (Sep/Oct/Nov 1934);
A Witch Shall be Born (Dec 1934);
Jewels of Gwahlur (Mar 1935);
Beyond the Black River (May/Jun 1935);
Shadows in Zamboula (Nov 1935);
The Hour of the Dragon (Dec 35/Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr 1936);
Red Nails (Jul/Aug/Sep 1936);
Robert E. Howard completed four Conan stories not published in his lifetime:
The Frost Giant's Daughter; after being rejected, Howard revised it, and retitled it as "The Gods of the North";
The God in the Bowl;
The Vale of Lost Women;
The Black Stranger, published in 1987 in Echoes of Valor;
Four unfinished Conan stories:
The Snout in the Dark;
Drums of Tombalku;
The Hall of the Dead synopsis;
The Hand of Ner
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