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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
A Shadow on the Land!
cover: Gil Kane, Tom Palmer
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1975
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Kull, The Destroyer / Heft-Reihe
A Lizard's Throne
art: Ernie Chan, Rudy Nebres
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1978
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Arak, Son of Thunder / Heft-Reihe
A Tree from some Dark Hell
cover: Ernie Colón, Dick Giordano
DC Comics / USA 1981
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(comics)
Conan / Heft-Reihe
cover: Val Semeiks, Geof Isherwood
> Death Pit
(art: Val Semeiks, Alfredo Alcala)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1989
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This sword-and-sorcery outing, by the cult director Umberto Lenzi, got new life thanks to the Code Red DVD/Blu-ray label. Invoking Fair Use to share this cool cover....a keeper for fans of obscuro-bizarro genre pix.
1980; Conan and the spider God by L. Sprague de Camp. Cover not credited. inside illustrations by Tim Kirk.
Flame Winds, by Norvell W. Page
Berkley Medallion X1741, 1969
Cover art by Jeff Jones
Originally published in Unknown, June 1939
This classic cover art for "The Dungeonmaster" (1984) features plenty of text and the iconic Oasis (Vestron International) logo. Fairly rare and collectible, even in Korea, because it's Oasis ...pronounced Oh-AH-sis on the peninsula.
Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Devil-Wings over Shadizar
Cover: Barry Windsor-Smith
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1971
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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Two against the Hawk-City
cover: John Buscema, Tony DeZuniga
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1978
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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Long Night of Fang and Talon!
cover: John Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1979
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Claw The Unconquered / Heft-Reihe
The Eater of Souls!
cover: Joe Kubert
DC Comics / USA (1978)
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Sons of the Bear-God, by Norvell W. Page
Berkley Medallion X1769, 1969
Cover art by Jeff Jones
The Sequel to Flame Winds
Originally published in Unknown, November 1939
This retro Korean VHS release of "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (1982), on the heavy-hitter Cinetrust label, highlights the film's premiere at the Myeongbo Cinema and heralds its mix of horror, thrills, skin, and more. The film was a surprise hit at the US boxoffice upon its release and inspired a boomlet of imitators. Very common tape back in the day - now fairly rare in mint condition.
The Adventurers / Heft-Reihe
The Chaos Gate
cover: Peter Hsu, Kent Burles
Adventure Publications / USA 1987
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Lair of the Beast-Men!
art: Barry Windsor-Smith, Sal Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1970
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Warlocks and Warriors, ed. L. Sprague de Camp
Berkley Medallion S1944, 1973
Cover art by James Steranko
King Conan / Heft-Reihe
Vengeance from the Desert!
cover: Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1981
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"The Creature From Beyond Infinity" was the first novel published by Henry Kuttner, an author who was one of the half dozen or so pillars of the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. It first saw the light of day in a 1940 issue of "Startling Stories" magazine under the title "A Million Years to Conquer," and finally in book form in the 1968 Popular Library paperback... Although that original title may perhaps be a more accurate descriptor, the pulpier "Creature" title gives a truer feel for what this book is: pulpy as can be!
In it, we meet Ardath, the sole survivor when his Kyrian spaceship crash-lands on Earth while our planet is still in the throes of its infancy. Ardath is instructed by his dying captain to repair the ship, put it into orbit around Earth, go into hibernation stasis for several aeons, and await the coming of genius mentalities on the new Earth. Ardath follows his captain's orders, sleeping for ages and awakening every million or so years to see what's cooking down below. Ultimately, he is able to collect four comparative geniuses from various periods of Earth's history, with the intention of creating a eugenically superior strain of man. From the dawn of prehistory he selects Thordred, a Conan-type usurper; Jansaiya, a priestess of Atlantis; Li Yang, a Chinese advisor to a Genghis Khan type; and Scipio, a Carthaginian revolutionary. I've always been a sucker for a story with two ongoing parallel plots, and Kuttner here gives us a doozy. On modern-day Earth (well, the Earth of 1941, anyway), Stephen Court, one of the foremost scientists in the world, fights desperately to counteract the Plague, a scourge from space that turns its victims into radioactive, life-sucking zombies. Naturally, these two plot strands eventually intertwine, and that's when things really start humming, in this exciting and clever little tale. [From a review at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/223276.The_Creature_from_Beyo...
Balder the Brave / limited series
Balder the Beautiful!
art: Sal Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1986
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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Fiends of the Feathered Serpent!
art: John Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1976
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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
Night of the Gargoyle!
art: John Buscema, Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1974
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Arak, Son of Thunder / Heft-Reihe
The Stalkers of the Snows
cover: Ernie Colón
DC Comics / USA 1982
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_(comics)
Kull, The Destroyer / Heft-Reihe
The Creature and the Crown!
art: Ernie Chan
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1978
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Conan The Barbarian / Heft-Reihe
The Diadem of the Giant-Kings!
cover: John Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1978
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As the green light (and dragon) disappeared into the pit, Conan and Red Sonya raced to the top of the set so they could conclude this show with a pose that would also have impressed Frank Frazetta. Frazetta's paintings of the original Conan paperback covers are something to behold, if you have ever seen them. It was a no-brainer that Frazetta's paintings would provide the foundation to the look of what became only two films based on the exploits of Robert E. Howard's greatest fictional character.
This was shot with Eastman Kodak 5293 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 250. The negatives were scanned at a high resolution, to a TIF file, which I saved on my hard drive as JPEGS and then tweaked and reduced the size via Photoshop to give you the image you see here.
I used a Vivitar 400/SL camera, with a Vivitar 50mm lens, shooting wide open at f/1.9. And I was shooting hand-held, holding the camera as steady as possible.
This retro double feature kicks off with "The Barbarians" (1987), a late drive-in cycle B pic, and washes down with "The Norseman" (1978), a minor cult fave with A-listers Lee Majors and Cornel Wilde. This latter flick took a critical pummeling in its initial release, but developed a following via HBO and other cable channels. Moderate budget epic for its time.
Conan Saga / Heft-Reihe
> The Hell-Spawn of Kara-Shehr (art: John Buscema, Ernie Chan)
Reprints from Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (February 1974)
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Conan the Avenger, by Robert E. Howard, Björn Nyberg, & L. Sprague de Camp
Lancer 73-780, 1969
Cover art by Frank Frazetta
Among dark smoke and mist, a huge red dragon is perched on a pile of stones. Its wings spread, and dark smoke drifting from his nostrils, this monster of myth and legend looks fierce. 3D Rendering.
This creation was a special one for me. It was created to be my very first NFT. I'm also, of course offering it as prints. An NFT is a type of digital collectible. The underlying tech is a bit complex, but I like to think of it sort of like a digital equivalent of a rare baseball card. If you buy it, you are the owner of that "card", no one else can own it unless you sell it to them. With NFTs, it is possible to have multiple copies, just like there can be three or four Babe Ruth baseball cards in the world, but with the NFTs I'm creating, I'm limiting it to 1 copy. For the most part you can only pay for them with Etherium (the second largest cryptocurrency behind BitCoin) NFTs are a VERY new thing, so I'm still kind of experimenting with them.
Here is where you can find the NFT: opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7...
Thanks for looking!
Daniel Eskridge
Kull, The Destroyer / Heft-Reihe
The Tiger in the Moon
art: Ed Hannigan, Yong Montano
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1976
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