Not elephants, but still a tower!

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A re-look at Lin Carter's work on King Kull. Plus the Algis Budrys review of that book referred to in my previous blogpost. https://spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/lin-carter-and-king-kull/

My sister has decided she wants to start reading the Robert E. Howard Conan books. I’m not sure what prompted this but I’m always happy to support any kind of fandom. :) I want to get her one or more books to get her started.

I don’t know anything about Conan (except that Robert Jordan wrote some.) What would be the best place to start? I usually like to read books in publication order, personally. Is that the best way to get someone into Conan?

Thank you!

TLDR: Why are magic-users typically evil in Conan?

So, I’m looking at doing a project and I’m drawing some inspiration from Conan - specifically the anti-civilisation themes.

However, I’ve stumbled across another potential source of inspiration from Conan - the character’s view and the narratives depiction of magic.

Why is it that most chstactets who use magic in the Conan stories are evil? What’s the link there?

Any thoughts or discussion on this would be appreciated - I’m in the brainstorming phase at the moment and so ideas can come from anything.

Cheers!

Got this today at my LCS just finished it and it is another awesome issue of savage sword they never seem to miss on this title weather it be the original marvel years or titan. I can’t get enough of it!!

I'm reading Blood of the Serpent by S.M. Stirling right now, and there's a paragraph that reads:

She [Irawagbon, side character] didn’t know what a catch-pole was, and he [Conan] realized he’d dropped an Aquilonian word into the rough Stygian; it was a fork on the end of a long pole that city watches sometimes used in civilized lands, with a spring-loaded bar that clicked home when you thrust it around a fleeing miscreant’s throat. Conan had snapped apart one that a Nemedian dog had tried to use on him, and then beat the man to death with it, early in his wandering days and before he’d fully grown.

Does anyone know if this refers to a specific fragment from a specific story, or is it just made up for the book?

u/Classicalis made a post about a month ago asking what would be a good roster for a fighting video game like Mortal Kombat set in the Conan world. I loved those ideas and I started wondering what would be cool for the stages for this imaginary fighting game. What would you do? I had a few ideas below.

Yag-Kosha’s Chamber, Zamora
Beneath Mount Golamira, Aquilonia
Fort Tuscalan, Pictish Wilderness
Kuthchemes, Zuagir Desert
Mount Yimsha, Vendhya
Messantia’s port, Argos
Nordheim
House of the Red Priest Nabonidus, Nemedia
Xuchotl, the Black Kingdoms
Isle of the Iron Statues, Vilayet Sea

Reprints of the 1975 black and white magazine.

The Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Comics Omnibus Vol.1 (SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN OMNIBUS): Thomas, Roy, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Buscema, John: 9781787740860: Amazon.com: Books

Been trying to do more pen and paper art instead of digital. Here’s one I did yesterday using the cover of Conan the invincible as reference.

Also Sandahl Bergman is my goddess. Can anyone recommend a Conan book with Valeria?