Solomon Kane (comics)

Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane
	Cover of The Saga of Solomon Kane (2009), trade paperback collected edition, art by Dorian Vallejo
Character information
First appearance	Monsters Unleashed #1 (August 1973)
Created by	Robert E. Howard
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics; Dark Horse Comics
Formats	Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Savage Sword of Conan and a set of limited series.
Genre	Dark fantasy;
Publication date	The Sword of Solomon Kane; September 1985–July 1986; Solomon Kane; September 2008–February 2009
Number of issues	The Sword of Solomon Kane; 6; Solomon Kane; 5
Main character(s)	ISBN 1595822828

Solomon Kane is a fictional character featured in several comics published by Marvel Comics between 1973 and 1994. He was originally created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. Dark Horse Comics began publishing a new series of Kane stories in 2008, and also published collections of the 1970s Marvel stories in 2009.

Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics published several comic books featuring Solomon Kane. He was the lead character in the six-issue limited series Sword of Solomon Kane, published 1985-6. He also appeared numerous times in the company's black and white, non-Code approved magazine format comics, most frequently in Savage Sword of Conan, starring Howard's most popular pulp character. The complete list of Marvel's Solomon Kane story appearances are:

Monsters Unleashed #1 (August 1973), an adaptation of Howard's Skulls in the Stars by Roy Thomas, art by Ralph Reese.
Dracula Lives #3 (October 1973), Kane meets Dracula by Thomas, art by Alan Weiss
.

The Conan Saga #50 (May 1991) by Alan Rowlands, art by Steve Carr and Al Williamson
(although this magazine was a reprint title, the Kane story in this issue had not been previously published).

Kull and the Barbarians #2–3 (July and September 1975), an adaptation of The Hills of the Dead by Thomas, art by Weiss, Neal Adams and Pablo Marcos.
Marvel Premiere #33–34 (December 1976 and February 1977). Like the Kane mini-series, this was a Code-approved four-color comic, an adaptation of Red Shadows by Thomas, art by Howard Chaykin.
Marvel Preview #19 (Summer 1979), an adaptation of "The Footfalls Within" by Don Glut, art by Will Meugniot and Steve Gan.
Savage Sword of Conan #13–14, 18–20, 22, 25, 26, 33, 34, 37, 39, 41, 53, 54, 62, 83, 162, 171, 219 and 220 (July 1976–April 1994) by Thomas, Glut, Doug Moench, Jo Duffy and John Arcudi, art by Gan, Chaykin, Weiss, and many others, including a sequel to the Kane vs. Dracula story, two adaptations of the Howard poem Solomon Kane's Homecoming,^[1] and in the last two issues, a meeting of Kane and Conan for which Thomas, with artist Colin MacNeil, used Howard's brief Kane fragment, "Death's Black Riders," as a springboard.^[2]
The Sword of Solomon Kane^{Ralph Macchio, with the art credits varying. The finale also contained yet another rendering of the poem "Solomon Kane's Homecoming," illustrated by Sandy Plunkett and Williamson.^[4]}

In 2019, Solomon Kane returned to Marvel as part of the crossover limited series Conan: Serpent War; teaming up with Conan,

Dark Agnes and Moon Knight.^[5]

Dark Horse Comics

It was announced at the 2006 Comic Con that

MySpace page in June 2008 ^[8] and the first issue was published in September 2008.^[9]

The second arc, "Death's Black Riders", was a four-issue mini-series published from January 2010 to June 2010. The third arc, "Red Shadows," had its first issue published in April 2011. "Red Shadows", based on a Robert E. Howard story and previously interpreted by Marvel in Marvel Premiere #33–34 (1976), follows Solomon Kane as he tracks le Loup, an expert French swordsman and womanizer with a habit of killing his conquests, through Europe, across the Mediterranean, and down the West Coast of Africa.