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Condor Superhelden Taschenbuch / Taschenbuch-Reihe
Magnus und Conan
> Conan / Der Phönix und das Schwert
(art: Vicente Alcazar)
Condor Verlag (Deutschland; 1984)
Copyright: Marvel Comic Group (USA; 1977-1984) > Conan, The Barbarian
ex libris MTP
Creatures on the Loose / Heft-Reihe
featuring Thongor, Warrior of Lost Lemuria
The Demon of Zangabal!
cover: Jim Sterenko
>Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria!
(art: Val Mayerik, Vince Colletta)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1973
ex libris MTP
The Adventurers / Heft-Reihe
The Gate of Chaos
cover: Peter Hsu
Adventure Publications / USA 1986
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
The Adventurers / Heft-Reihe
Who Calls These Dead To Dance
cover: Peter Hsu
Adventure Publications / USA 1987
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Cuda B.C. / one-shot
The Lurker beneath the Bog
art: Tim Virgil
Verlag: Rebel Studios (USA; 1995)
ex libris MTP
Dagar / Heft-Reihe
Vengeance -- Sweet Vengeance
cover: ?
Gold Key Publications Inc.
(New York/USA; 1973)
ex libris MTP
Cuda B.C. / one-shot
The Lurker beneath the Bog
art: Tim Virgil
Verlag: Rebel Studios (USA; 1995)
ex libris MTP
Dagar / Heft-Reihe
Wrath of the Vampires
cover: ?
Gold Key Publications Inc.
(New York/USA; 1973)
ex libris MTP
A Conyn the Barbarian story. Conyn has to deal with an impostor witch impersonating her king – that is, if she survives being crucified on the tree of pain and can raise an army. A Gender Switch Adventure.
Artwork by Robert Rizzato
www.flickr.com/photos/rizzato/2943194555/in/faves-jekkara...
Forgotten Realms / Heft-Reihe
The Hand of Vaprak!
cover: Rags Morales, Dave Simons
DC Comics / USA (1989)
ex libris MTP
...always in a rage, but sporting a delightfully backcombed do as only a Cimmerian could do. On a post-it note!
Prints: daniel-eskridge.artistwebsites.com/featured/fantasy-quest...
Four fantasy heroes rest on the shore of a wide gentle river. Among them is a armored warrior, a sorceress, a massive ogre, and a grumpy dwarf. Across the river on a forested ridge, a grey stone castle rises from the trees. Apparently this party of adventures have reached the next location on their quest.
This image was inspired by the somewhat typical make-up of a fantasy role playing game. I myself played a bit of Dungeons and Dragons as a kid. I remember that no one ever wanted to be the cleric/healer, so I left such a character out of my scene. Yet, there was usually someone who wanted to be a monster rather than than a regular player type, so I included the ogre.
Savage Tales / Heft-Reihe
cover: Richard Rae, Glen Ford
> Beowulf / The Curse of Castle Hrothgar (art: Ricardo Villamonte)
Reprints from Beowulf (DC, 1975 series) #1 (April-May 1975)
> Kong the Untamed (art: Alfred P. Alcala)
Reprints from Kong the Untamed (DC, 1975 series) #1 (June-July 1975)
> Hercules Unbound! (art: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Wally Wood)
Reprints from Hercules Unbound (DC, 1975 series) #1 (October-November 1975)
> Iron Wolf (art: Howard Chaykin)
Reprints from Weird Worlds (DC, 1972 series) #8 (November-December 1973)
> Rise of the Olympians (art: Ric Estrada)
Reprints from Our Fighting Forces (DC, 1954 series) #140 (November-December 1972)
> Claw / The Sword and the Silent Scream (art: Ernie Chan)
Reprints from Claw the Unconquered (DC, 1975 series) #1 (May-June 1975)
Murray Publishers PTY
(Sydney / Australien; 1979)
ex libris MTP
Creatures on the Loose / Heft-Reihe
featuring Thongor, Warrior of Lost Lemuria
Against the Hordes of Hell!
cover: John Romita
> Mountain of Thunder!
(art: Vicente Alcazar)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1974
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Cuda B.C. / one-shot
cover for Cuda Issue 2 (1994)
art: Tim Virgil, Adam McDaniel
Verlag: Rebel Studios (USA; 1995)
ex libris MTP
Time of Contempt by Andrzej Spakowski. Gollancz 2013. Translated from Polish, original publication 1995
A sequel to "Blood of Elves". Part of an on-going series
Creatures on the Loose / Heft-Reihe
featuring Thongor, Warrior of Lost Lemuria
Doom of the Serpent Gods!
cover: John Romita
> Tower of the Serpent-Women!
(art: Val Mayerik, Wayne Howard)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1973
ex libris MTP
Balder the Brave / limited series
Balder the Warrior!
cover: Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1986
ex libris MTP
Balder the Brave / limited series
The Sword of Frey
cover: Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1986
ex libris MTP
Suspended Animation Classic #735 First published January 26, 2003 (#4) (Dates are approximate)
Prince Valiant; Kameelman By Michael Vance
Prince Valiant #45: The Mark of Cain/$16.95 & 44 pgs. from Fantagraphics Books /sold in comics/book stores.
This forty-fifth issue reprints Sunday pages from a seminal masterpiece that influenced decades of comics writers and artists. For the uninitiated, methinks Prince Valiant is set "in the days of King Arthur", and recounts the rousing, pseudo-historic adventures of a restless knight as he gallops through what became Western Europe.
Pioneer comics genius Hal Foster established the beautiful, realistic style of art and word that is continued by John Cullen Murphy, and the quirk that distinguished it from almost everything else in comics. Both prose and dialog are printed at the bottom of the art. This creates a sense that readers observe instead of participate in events.
This series should be in every library. Highly recommended for all literate ages.
Kameelman #1/$2.99 & 32 pgs. from AI Oregon/words: T-Bone; art: Ron Randall/sold in comics shops
Zack is the first transgenic clone and able to morph his body into other human forms and experience the emotions of those around him. What distinguishes him from a million other superheroes is that he isn't a superhero. He's just a weird, teenage kid in high school who's world is girls, electronic gadgets, music and, most importantly, relationships. That's right. Kameelman is Archie Comics without Archie's cuteness, which is its saving grace.
Its other recommendation is that this teenage world reads and feels real, which is no slight accomplishment in any medium. Loneliness and social awkwardness are common. Talent does not always win. Much of the culture seems superfluous but still of intense importance. Not everyone is pretty. Bullies often win.
This title's only weakness is the wholly unnecessary 'transgenic clone' shtick.
Well drawn and well written, Kameelman is recommended for teens.
Condor Superhelden Taschenbuch / Taschenbuch-Reihe
Magnus Herr der Roboter
> Dagar / Im Banne der Zora-Zal (art: Jesse Santos)
Reprints from Tales of Sword and Sorcery Dagar the Invincible (Western, 1972 series) #7 (April 1974)
Condor Verlag (Deutschland; 1981)
Copyright: Western Publishing (USA; 1964-1981)
ex libris MTP
The Last Wish by Andrzej Spakowski. Gollancz 2008. Translated from Polish, original publication 1993
A set of short stories, happening before "Blood of Elves" but only loosely connected. I found it less interesting.
Creatures on the Loose / Heft-Reihe
featuring Thongor, Warrior of Lost Lemuria
Demons dwell in the Crypts of Yamath!
Cover: Vicente Alcazar
> In the Crypts of Yamath!
(art: Val Mayerik, Vicente Alcazar)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1974
ex libris MTP
Suspended Animation Classic #271
Originally published March 6, 1994 (#10)
(Dates are approximate)
Groo the Wanderer
By Michael Vance
“Groo the Wanderer” #11/30 pages, $2.25 from Marvel Comics/written and drawn by Sergio Aragones/available on newsstands, in comics shops, and by mail order.
This minstrel wears sweeping mustaches, strums his mandolin, and sings: “Come listen to my tale of a bard quite mad/whose talent is marginal, too/With quirky word and comical art/he turned all his fans to Groo, to Groo/To the Wanderer they call Groo.”
Enough silly verse. But you can’t get enough of Sergio Aragones, famous for his tiny cartoons in the margins of “Mad” magazine. In “Groo the Wanderer” Sergio has created that rarest of gems, a funny “funny book”.
Wonderfully, Groo is also much more than a parody of barbarians like Conan. Groo’s diverse and heavily populated world (crowd scenes are Sergio’s trademark) is so well realized that the foul smelling barbarian with the intelligence of a snail is barely in the current issue.
In that issue, a minstrel tells the tale of a dunce who decided to defeat an imitation Groo to win his town’s respect and free food. The pretender dons a rag smeared with dead fish and pig slop to imitate Groo’s scent. But success breeds failure when the real barbarian arrives and vows to slay the fiend who slew him.
But that’s not when the fun begins.
It begins with Sergio’s art. Wow!! No realism, no silly muscle-boy posing, clenched fists and teeth, and uniquely stylized, these pictures are a refreshing break from the superhero art dominating comic books today. This is fun stuff to grin at, folks.
It continues with clever plots and dialogue, great characterization and timing, and heaps of imagination.
Am I gushing? Join me.
Mightily recommended.
Balder the Brave / limited series
Balder the Warrior!
art: Sal Buscema
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1986
ex libris MTP
Calvin's Custom 1/6 one sixth scale custom Thulsa Doom, Thorgrim and Rexor from Conan the Barbarian 1982
Brak vs. The Sorceress
By John Jakes
Tower Publications, Inc., 1980
Cover by Uldis Klavins.
Interior illustrations by Ron Miller.
1980 is an uncertain date for this book. The legal information gives a 1969 copyright for the original book, but a new introduction by Jakes is dated October 10, 1980. It's quite possible the book was released in 1981.
Purchased at Horizon Books, Seattle, February 2009.
Death Angel's Shadow
By Karl Edward Wagner
Warner Books, 1973
Collection of three novellas featuring Wagner's sword and sorcery hero Kane.
Cover by Stan Zagorski.
Purchased at Pegasus Book Exchange, West Seattle, late 2008.
Balder the Brave / limited series
Balder the Betrayed!
cover: Walt Simonson
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1986
ex libris MTP
Suspended Animation Classic #58
Originally published February 4, 1990 (#5)
Cormac Mac Art
By R. A. Jones
Thanks to the magic of movies, even people who have never read a book know of the heroic character Conan the Barbarian. Conan is the most popular character ever created by a writer named Robert E. Howard who worked for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Howard’s own life ended tragically in suicide, but Conan survived and thrived.
What many people may not realize is that Conan was not the only such character Howard created. Though their names are less well known, Howard spun many an interesting yarn about heroes called King Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Soloman Kane – and Cormac Mac Art.
Cormac, an Irish warrior who fought alongside Vikings in the 6th Century, was the central character in four short stories written by Howard, though not published until after his death. Now, those stories are being adapted in a new, 4-issue comic book series.
The first issue adapts “The Temple of Abomination” in which Cormac and his companions find themselves caught in the web of an evil far older than Christianity. Fortunately, in sword-and-sorcery stories of this sort, a stout heart and a sturdy sword can usually stand up to anything.
The series is scripted by Roy Thomas, the same writer who first brought Conan to comics 20 years ago. Then, Thomas captured the flavor of Howard’s original prose better than just about anyone. Now, he seems to just be going through the motions. He fails totally to evoke the sense of suspense and horror that Howard brought to a story.
Nor does he receive much help in the art department – except for the beautifully painted cover illustration by British artist John Bolton. Inside the book, E. R. Cruz handles the art, and it is so cluttered that characters seem to be falling all over each other.
Cormac Mac Art will only be of interest to the most diehard of sword-and-sorcery fans. If you’re one of them – you can find it in any comic book specialty store.
The Last of the Viking Heroes / Heft-Reihe
cover: Michael Thibodeaux
Verlag: Genesis West (USA; 1990)
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Calvin's Custom 1/6 one sixth scale custom Thulsa Doom, Thorgrim and Rexor from Conan the Barbarian 1982
Kyrik: Warlock Warrior
By Gardner F. Fox
Leisure Books, 1975
Cover by Ken Barr.
Purchased via internet, 2007.
A Conyn the Barbarian story. Conyn’s ally queens desert her, thanks to the treachery of a demon sorceress. Brought before them in chains, she is soon to be fed to a giant serpent. A Gender Switch Adventure.
www.smashwords.com/books/view/19901
Artwork by Conyn the Barbarian
www.flickr.com/photos/conyn/4825786095/in/faves-jekkarapr...
A Conyn the Barbarian story.
Conyn signs up as a scout in Pictish territory, and gets involved with his partner in a border war against the wizard Zogara Sag and her cult of followers.
A Gender Switch Adventure.
Artwork by Roberto Rizzato
www.flickr.com/photos/rizzato/3286134100/sizes/o/in/faves...