#the savage sword of conan the barbarian

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #31 -July 1978-

cover art by Howard Chaykin

[oldschoolfrp]

Conan vs all the damn vampires -- the ancient Brylukas (Earl Norem cover art for Savage Sword of Conan 38, March 1979, adapting the L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E Howard story "The Road of the Eagles," aka "Conan, Man of Destiny")

[geekynerfherder]

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Nestor Redondo.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WITNESS THE HYBORIAN AGE IN THE MIGHTY MARVEL MANNER.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on remastered, textless, & published cover art to "Savage Sword of Conan" Vol. 2 #4 [Part of the "Cult of Koga Thun" and "Shadow of Vengeance" story arcs]. June, 2019. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Alex Ross.

Resolution from largest to smallest: 1325x2048, 1160x2048, & 1040x1600.

Sources: https://twitter.com/thealexrossart/status/1488879434744668167/photo/1 & Reddit.

[curtvilescomic]

cover for Savage Sword of Conan #8 by Alex Horley

[spacenoirdetective]

Conan art by Tony De Zuniga from "Savage Sword of Conan #38"

[chernobog13]

Earl Norem's original painting for the cover of The Savage Sword of Conan (vol. 1) #23 (October, 1977), featuring Red Sonja and Conan.

[alphacomicsvol2]

Savage Sword of Conan #53 Cover Art by Earl Norem

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Savage Sword Of Conan #089 Pg 06 (1983) by Alfredo Alcala

[gameraboy2]

Savage Sword of Conan #58 (1980) Cover by Earl Norem

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #30 -June 1978-

cover art by Frank Brunner

[oldschoolfrp]

Conan vs a vampire, as sword & sorcery fantasy intersects again with gothic horror -- The Vanir say a city of vampires dwelled in Vanaheim until Ymir the frost giant buried them beneath a mountain of frozen rock. (Bob Larkin cover art for Savage Sword of Conan no 141, October 1987)

[all-action-all-picture]

The Savage Sword of Conan No. 23, October 1977. Cover by Earl Norem.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"BY THE MIDDLE SEVENTIES CONAN HAD BECOME ONE OF MARVEL'S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS."

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on a mega photo-dump of cover art (textless & published) to "Savage Sword of Conan" Vol. 2 #2. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Alex Ross. Also included cover art to "Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 5" (2021) hardcover.

ICV2: "What was happening with the property?  The first movie was 1982.  Was the property getting more popular or was it confined just to Marvel?"

ROY THOMAS: "By the middle seventies Conan had become one of Marvel’s most popular characters.  Since the "Savage Sword of Conan" Vol. 1 book sold for like a buck at a time when other comics were like a quarter or thirty cents or so (and didn’t have that much color in it, just the cover, it was not that expensive to produce), I suspect there was probably a little while in the late seventies at least, when Conan between the two or three titles he was in was probably making as much money in terms of comic book sales for the company as Spider-Man was. 

The Franklin Mint did some medallions at that time, three or four of them and one of the four they picked was Conan out of all the characters they could have picked. We had the rights to merchandising at that time. So it was really quite popular. 

But in the meantime, by the mid-seventies, unfortunately Lancer (I don’t know exactly how they mismanaged it) somehow despite the popularity of the Conan and Robert E. Howard properties they had, and the other things they did, managed to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which meant that for a number of years in the late seventies and early eighties there were a number of years when there was no authorized printing of the Conan text stories at all. He wasn’t exactly a growth industry in terms of paperbacks or hardbound books or anything like that. He was surviving in the public’s mind for those years primarily on the strength of the comics. 

I always remember that at an early stage, sometime in the late seventies or early eighties, but sometime before the movie, that Sammy Davis Jr. was hosting a show, I don’t know if it was his or he was guest-hosting "The Tonight Show," and he had Arnold Schwarzenegger on. This was sometime before the movie was released or even filmed yet, but he’d been signed long since to play the character and he said he was willing to play Conan the Barbarian. And Sammy Davis Jr., a favorite singer of mine, said, “Oh, the comic book character!”  That’s sort of the way the public thought of Conan if they thought of him at all at that time -- as a comic book character. 

It made that movie viable at a time when otherwise probably it would have been dead. Eventually it would have come back and maybe somebody would have done it, but that particular movie at that particular time owed as much to comics as it did to the stories in terms of viability."

Resolution from largest to smallest: 1400x2048, 1329x2040, 1200x1760, 1184x1800, 720x1107.

Sources: https://twitter.com/thealexrossart/status/1488879434744668167/photo/1, In This Issue Comics, Marvel (official site), & https://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/18591/roy-thomas-history-conan.

[curtvilescomic]

Savage Sword of Conan cover by Earl Norem

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The Savage Sword of Conan #7 by Roy Thomas, Roberto de la Torre, Joe Pruett, Goran Parlov and more. Main cover by Alex Horley. Variant cover by Sean Joyce. Out in February 2025.

"ROY THOMAS RETURNS TO CONAN! THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN begins its barbaric second year from Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics! Featuring the return of legendary writer Roy Thomas with artist Roberto de la Torre for a ferocious Conan tale, a mysterious BÊLIT story from writer Joseph Pruett and artist Goran Parlov, a behind-the-scenes look at Conan's upcoming appearance in NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 1, tantalizing covers from Alex Horley and Sean Joyce, an array of incredible art pin-ups, and more - Issue #7 kicks off the second year of SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN in stunning style."