{"id":53921,"date":"2022-04-28T03:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=53921"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:45:10","slug":"i-felt-obliged-to-drop-a-line-to-the-mighty-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/i-felt-obliged-to-drop-a-line-to-the-mighty-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"“I felt obliged to drop a line to the mighty Conan…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tentaclii<\/em> has gone a bit quiet on Robert E. Howard and Conan et al<\/em>. It’s not because I’ve lost interested, but because the material isn’t there to note. There seems to have been a lack of suitable items recently, other than the new cash-in comics and foreign translations and suchlike so ably tracked by Messages from Crom<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

But now the Robert E. Howard Days<\/a> (aka Howard Days) in Cross Plains, Texas, are just over six weeks away. It may be that various scholarly and thoughtful publications are being timed to appear for that.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I see that Exploring the Worlds of REH Omnibus<\/a><\/em> collects Fred Blosser’s themed ebooks (Howard\u2019s Weird Texas<\/em>, etc) into a single paperback. Along with eight new articles. I see he also has the survey ebooks Sons of Ringo: The Great Spaghetti Western Heroes<\/em> and More Sons of Ringo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One item I thought might be of note was Conan the Barbarian Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years – Queen of the Black Coast<\/a><\/em>. This was a chunky Marvel 1970s Buscema\/Thomas reprint volume released last Christmas. But be warned that the cover and title is misleading. On reading the details you find this is only the run-up to his meeting Belit the ‘Queen of the Black Coast’ (issues #43-59). Conan meets her in #58 and then #59-to-#100 or thereabouts is the rest of the Belit run, as ably collected in Dark Horse’s earlier reprint book Chronicles of Conan<\/em>, Volumes 8-12. So, be warned that you’re not getting the run that the new ‘Original Marvel Years’ cover seems to promise.<\/p>\n

I took a look to see if I had missed anything else in the last year or so, and noted “Der Barbar aus dem Norden: Nordenbilder in Robert E. Howards Conan-Erzahlungen”<\/a>, in the journal NORDEUROPAforum<\/em>, 2020. On ‘images of the ancient North as they appear in R.E. Howard’s Conan’<\/em>. It may interest some readers here, especially because it’s under full Creative Commons Attribution and is thus available to be translated from the German.<\/p>\n

Also there’s now a new and mighty-thewed blog-post category here at Tentaclii<\/em>, REH<\/a>. I’ve gone back and retrospectively tagged as many posts as I can find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tentaclii has gone a bit quiet on Robert E. Howard and Conan et al. It’s not because I’ve lost interested, …<\/p>\n

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