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Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider
Where are you finding some of these old Conan books?
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the Conan stories have been compiled and published over and over again. But the short story collections were always edited and re-worked by L. Sprague De Camp. He butchered those REH short stories. he removed whole sections out of a few of the stories. LSD also wrote some pastiches on Conan. those are underwhelming.
LSD passed in 2000. in 2003 the original REH stories on Conan and Kull were compiled/published in their original form. these had not been available since the 30's unless you owned the pulp fiction magazines.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-...0634437&sr=8-3
the same publisher used to put out all those cheap paperbacks
I have most of these books too but I like them for the Frazetta paintings on the cover. the stories aren't that great. I never felt compelled to finish them.i recommend the newer books over the old ones, from that publisher (Del Ray) at least.
my first exposure to Conan was the comic/magazine called
The Savage Sword of Conan. they were first published by Marvel Comics but they were magazines for adults. they were taller and wider than marvel comics and they don't adhere to the Comics Code Authority which forbade blood, gore and T'n'A. Darkhorse comics started publishing those as whole volumes in the early 2000s.
these are really great value for the modest cost. even if you pay full retail price of $20 per volume, you get 500 to 600 pages of content from Marvels best editor and artists. individual issues of this magazine cost $2 each back in the early 80's. so... the phone book sized volumes are a better price even before you consider 25-40 years worth of inflation.
there was a movie made about Robert E Howard BITD. it looks really bad. comical