Conan the Barbarian #58

Conan the Barbarian #58

Comic: Conan the Barbarian #58
Language: English
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Year: January 1976
Condition: Fine/Very Fine, FN/VF, 7.0

Conan the Barbarian #58 with a story by Roy Thomas (writer) and John Buscema (artist). The story is an adaptation of Robert E. Howard's original Conan story of the same title. Here, Bêlit, the Queen of the Black Coast, appears for the first time. The issue is in good condition.

Conan the Barbarian ran as a comic series at Marvel from 1970 to 1993 and reached a total of 275 issues. It was unusual for Marvel at the time 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 claim a good share of that 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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