Conan! A recent addition to my spec-fic library @conanthemovie @conanthegame #frazetta

I had some time off over the holidays, and spent much of it cruising the used bookstores.  I was looking for a few specific titles in order to fill some gaps in my collections, and had some luck there.  But some of my purchases were the kind of serendipitous finds that make the day really worthwhile.

Here's one of them: Conan #1, 1967, from Ace Books.  It comprises five shorts published in various pulp magazines between 1933 and 1967, even though Conan creator, Robert E. Howard, himself died in 1936.  Also included in this paperback edition is an intro by Conan contributor L. Sprague de Camp, as well as a letter from Howard and biographical background from Conan scholars P. Schuyler Miller and Dr. John D. Clark.  All of the content is reprint material, but it makes for a nice little introduction and summary of everyone's favorite barbarian.

The cover is a Frank Frazetta piece that he did for the Conan story "Rogues in the House" and has the distinction of being one of the few Conan art pieces, apparently, that Frazetta actually based on the story itself.

Ahhh.    Good times.