Conan the Barbarian #1 Facsimile

Conan the Barbarian #1

Comic: Conan the Barbarian #1
Language: English
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Year: March 2019
Condition: Near Mint Minus, NM-, 9.2

Conan the Barbarian #1 in Marvel Comics' True Believers reprint line. Here, the legendary issue by Roy Thomas (writer) and Barry Smith (artist) can be read again as a facsimile reprint in digitally restored quality. A classic that's guaranteed not to be available in its original form for so little money. The comic book is in a like-new condition.

Conan the Barbarian ran as a comic series at Marvel from 1970 to 1993 and reached a total of 275 issues. At the time, it was unusual for Marvel to buy licences to produce comics. Roy Thomas convinced his boss Stan Lee and the publisher's then-owner Martin Goodman to release Conan as a comic. As it would soon turn out, Thomas had the right instinct - fantasy was booming in the 1970s, and Marvel's version of Robert E. Howard's barbarian was able to cash in on a good part of this trend. In the early 1970s, Briton Barry Smith shaped the style of the comics, but it was John Buscema who would ultimately go down in comic history as the Conan artist. Later spin-offs followed, such as Savage Sword of Conan, the Giant-Size issues and King Conan.

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