Savage Sword of Conan
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | August 1974 – July 1995 |
No. of issues | 235 |
Main character(s) | List |
Creative team | |
Written by | List
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Penciller(s) | |
Inker(s) | List
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Editor(s) | Roy Thomas |
The Savage Sword of Conan was a black-and-white magazine-format
As a "magazine", Savage Sword of Conan did not have to conform to the
Savage Sword of Conan was published under the Curtis imprint until issue 60, when it became part of the
Marvel Comics reacquired the publishing rights in 2018, and started a new run of Savage Sword of Conan collected editions beginning in February 2019. In 2022, Titan Comics acquired the license to reprint the magazine in new collected editions.
In April 2019, Marvel also started a new run of Savage Sword of Conan with new material. This title ran for 12 issues until February 2020.
Publication history
The adventures in Savage Sword of Conan are not always consecutive (as they are in the color Marvel title Conan the Barbarian), and they cover different eras of Conan's life. The Savage Sword stories mostly feature an older Conan, and adapt Robert E. Howard stories and pastiches starting from "Black Colossus" (according to the Miller/Clark chronology), thus following the Roy Thomas stories in Conan the Barbarian.
The first issue leads off with Thomas and
Issues #6-10 included "People of the Dark", a 30-page tale scripted by Thomas and drawn by
The next three years of the title featured numerous adaptations of Howard stories (many by the art team of Buscema and Alcala), including "
Collected editions
In 2007, Dark Horse Comics began issuing a series of trade paperbacks, collecting and reprinting early issues of the title, as well as stories which originally appeared in Savage Tales. By 2016, the complete series had been reprinted in 22 volumes.[3] In 2018 when Marvel resumed the rights it began publishing its own collected editions of original Marvel material. In 2022, Titan Comics acquired the license to reprint the magazine in new collected editions.[4]
Marvel Omnibus Collected Editions
Title | Collects | Story | Art | Published | ISBN |
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Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 1 | Savage Tales (1971) #1-5
Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #1 - #12 Savage Sword Of Conan Special (1975) #1 |
Roy Thomas | Barry Windsor-Smith
John Buscema |
2019 | ISBN 9781302915322 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 2 | Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #13 - #28
Marvel Comics Super Special (1977) #2 |
Roy Thomas | John Buscema | 2019 | ISBN 9781302915162 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 3 | Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #29 - #44
Marvel Comics Super Special (1977) #9 |
Roy Thomas | John Buscema
Sal Buscema Ernie Chan |
2020 | ISBN 9781302922429 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 4 | Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #45 - #60 | Roy Thomas | John Buscema | 2021 | ISBN 9781302922443 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 5 | Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #61 - #72 | Michael Fleischer
Roy Thomas Bruce Jones |
John Buscema
Gil Kane Ernie Chan |
2021 | ISBN 9781302926564 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 6 | Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #73 - #87
Marvel Comics Super Special #21 |
Michael Fleischer
Roy Thomas |
John Buscema
Alfredo Alcala Val Mayerik Gil Kane |
2022 | ISBN 9781302926946 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 7 | Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) #88 - #101 | Michael Fleischer | John Buscema | 2022 | ISBN 9781302934309 |
Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 8 | Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #102-116
Marvel Comics Super Special (1977) #35 |
2022 | ISBN 978-1302934903 |
Awards
The comic won the "Comic" British Fantasy Award in 1975 and 1976.[5]
See also
- Conan (comics)
- Conan (Marvel Comics)
Notes
- ISBN 978-1605490564.
- ^ Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- ^ Savage Sword of Conan (Dark Horse Comics) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- ^ "Titan Publishing New Editions of Conan Omnibi". icv2.com. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ Edwards, Jan. "The British Fantasy Awards: a Short History". (with additions from) David Sutton. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
References
- The Savage Sword of Conan at the Grand Comics Database
- The Savage Sword of Conan at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)