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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Battle at the Black Walls!
cover: Gil Kane
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1977
ex libris MTP
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
He who waits--in the Well of Skelos!
cover: Gil Kane, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1977
ex libris MTP
Conan's Pizza, Austin, Texas.
This little hole-in-the-wall pizza restaurant opened in 1976 at the corner of 29th and Guadalupe, on "the drag" in Austin, Texas. From this little store, Conan's grew to a chain of several locations spread throughout Austin and the surrounding areas. But sometime during the 90's the chain fell on hard times, and closed down all but it's three oldest stores, north Austin, south Austin, and this one, the original right by the University of Texas campus.
Conan's has always had a very special place in my heart; it started for me way back in the very same year that this store opened, in 1976. I was a 15 year-old boy attending Lanier High School in north Austin, and was a drummer in a garage band with several other kids from school. Led Zeppelin had just released their classic live concert movie, "The Song Remains The Same", and it was showing down at the old Texas Theater, also on located "the drag", the slang term for the section of Guadalupe Street the runs through the UT campus.
So what do a group of high school freshmen do when they want to see a movie all the way downtown on the UT campus? They skip school for the day, hop on a bus and ride it downtown, getting off at the intersection of 29th & Guadalupe! I don't recall how we wound up deciding to eat at Conan's, but I vividly remember the experience that very first time. Though it looked almost identical then to how it does now, the ambience was entirely different. The place blasted KLBJ-FM loud, it was chock full of long-haired hippie students, ivy plants hung everywhere, and the artwork of Frank Frazetta, creator of "Conan the Barbarian" hung everywhere (as it still does today). You ordered at the counter, and when your pizza was ready, instead of simply calling your name, they came on the mic with clever little comments from the clearly high employees such as, "Noel...your cosmic Conan's pizza is ready for you....are you ready for it?". It was heaven for a teenage garage band in 1976. We sat at the second booth back on the left side as you look at the picture.
Well, after eating the best deep dish pizza we'd ever put in our mouths, we walked down the drag to the Texas Theater and watched the movie. Remember, in 1976, there was no MTV, and I doubt if any of us had seen Led Zeppelin before other than in still photographs and album covers, so to see an entire concert movie of them was absolutely spellbinding for four aspiring teenage rock stars.
After the movie, we made our way back up to the bus stop, browsing through the shops on the drag until time to catch our bus back to the north Austin suburbs.
That whole day still rates as one of the most memorable in my life, and I still recall it with fond affection. I really miss the old Austin that I grew up with, as well as my old bandmates from those days. Austin of the 1970's was a great place to be for a musician, and I'm so glad that I was fortunate enough to have grown up there.
If you're ever in Austin, be sure to visit Conan's...it's an Austin icon, and you won't be disappointed!
Night, ambient light of all kinds from all directions, composite of two exposures ( 1 & 2 seconds).
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Dance of the Skull!
Cover: John Buscema, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1978
ex libris MTP
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Snow Haired Woman of the Wastes
Cover: Gil Kane
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1981
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Conan / Heft-Reihe
The Warrior's Way
Cover: Val Semeiks, Geof Isherwood
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1988
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To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
The best in life from Conan of Cimmeria! Of course, this figure wouldn't be complete for me without his overmolded BrickArms prototype Cimmerian PickAxe.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Conan Doyle
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Photograph shows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and children.
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34445
Call Number: LC-B2- 5766-11
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Queen and the Corsairs
Cover: John Buscema, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1978
ex libris MTP
Conan the Adventurer, by Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp
Lancer 73-526, 1968
Cover art by Frank Frazetta
A quick finger trace around an image then color fillers. Thought it was fun and captured him well.
iPad finger art
Sketchbook Pro app
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Trial by Combat
Cover: John Buscema, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1977
ex libris MTP
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Tower of Flame
cover: John Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1983
ex libris MTP
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
When Giants walk the Earth!
Cover: Gil Kane, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1977
ex libris MTP
CONAN FUE UN PERRO ABANDONADO, ME IMAGINO,POR SU APARENTE FIEREZA. AHORA ES PARTE DE LA FAMILIA Y VALORAMOS ,SOBRE TODO , SU NOBLEZA.
tattooed on client's lower back.
wooh just saw it one the bump for tonight's show 12/16
more tattoo work at myspace.com/tat2artst
or
evldemon.deviantart.com
Mezco One:12 Collective (2023)
First Appearances:
• Weird Tales (December 1932)
• Conan the Barbarian #1
(October 1970)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_film)
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Curse of the Conjurer!
cover: John Buscema, John Romita
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1975
ex libris MTP
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Swordless in Stygia
Cover: Gil Kane, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1977
ex libris MTP