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[Savate]

I have not been able to find the story this is based on (is it a story called Red Nails?) and I wondered if any of the Del Rey volumes contains this story.

Does this story take place early in Conan's life or the later stages?

[Kieran]

Yes, the story is called Red Nails. It happens in the middle of Conan's career - when exactly is up for debate. I assume it is in one of the Del Rey books, but I don't have them so I couldn't say for sure.

[terryallenuk]

It's in the 3rd Del Rey The Conquering Sword of Conan now just out .

Terry

[sat]

I have not been able to find the story this is based on (is it a story called Red Nails?) and I wondered if any of the Del Rey volumes contains this story.

Definitely. This one:

from http://www.amazon.co...glance&n=283155

Or the more colorfully artistic version:

from http://www.darkhorse....php?sku=12-738

Does this story take place early in Conan's life or the later stages?

Yeah. Years after he first came adventuring south of Cimmeria.

Check out this site
http://www.enworld.o...ladun/conan.htm
for a good overview of where the REH stories fit into Conan's life.

[Savate]

Thanks...Im still working on the first of the series ("The Coming of...") so I guess I'll have to wait!

[daknight]

I have not been able to find the story this is based on (is it a story called Red Nails?) and I wondered if any of the Del Rey volumes contains this story.

Definitely. This one:

from http://www.amazon.co...glance&n=283155

Or the more colorfully artistic version:

from http://www.darkhorse....php?sku=12-738

Does this story take place early in Conan's life or the later stages?

Yeah. Years after he first came adventuring south of Cimmeria.

Check out this site
http://www.enworld.o...ladun/conan.htm
for a good overview of where the REH stories fit into Conan's life.

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Hi Sat. How did you find the coloring of Red Nails in the Chronicles book? I have the Special Edition reprint from the early 80s and just wondered how it compared.

[korak]

daknight writes- How did you find the coloring of Red Nails in the Chronicles book? I have the Special Edition reprint from the early 80s and just wondered how it compared.


In my opinion, the chronicles book was a bit superior to the special edition. The problem was that Windsor-smith had done his own coloring on the story in the Treasury Edition, and the Special Edition did not follow Smith's color scheme. While Smith also did not color the Chronicles edition, it seems to follow his scheme more closely.

[sat]

Hi Sat.  How did you find the coloring of Red Nails in the Chronicles book?  I have the Special Edition reprint from the early 80s and just wondered how it compared.

Sadly, I didn't get it. Though I wanted it. But I have that special, and all the other stories in their original comics.

I liked the new coloring, but not nearly enough to buy stories I'd already read.
But I did wistfully look through a copy in my fav store.
It was rich, but could sometimes be a little over dark and murky.

I think Korak's opinion's about the same as mine. This is still the best collected & colored version:

from http://www.milehighc.....52042489130 4

[PainBrush]

That was the first Conan I had read as a kid . Got me started a short while later collecting everything of Conan & Howard . Can you believe that giant huge book was only a buck fifty way back in the mid ''70's ? _surprisingly you can still find copies of that for not 'too' much nowadays.

[Savate]

I have not been able to find the story this is based on (is it a story called Red Nails?) and I wondered if any of the Del Rey volumes contains this story.

Definitely. This one:

from http://www.amazon.co...glance&n=283155

Or the more colorfully artistic version:

from http://www.darkhorse....php?sku=12-738

Does this story take place early in Conan's life or the later stages?

Yeah. Years after he first came adventuring south of Cimmeria.

Check out this site
http://www.enworld.o...ladun/conan.htm
for a good overview of where the REH stories fit into Conan's life.

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Hi Sat. How did you find the coloring of Red Nails in the Chronicles book? I have the Special Edition reprint from the early 80s and just wondered how it compared.

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Jeeez! Look at the biceps on him on the Darkhorse cover.....Lordeeee!!!

[Strom]

Picked up Comic Buyers Guide #1615 (the one with Red Sonja on the cover) and there are a some great articles on the Conan and Red Sonja comics and Sword & Sorcery games in comics.

There is also a very cool article on the Conan: Red Nails animated movie discussing when it will be released:

Scheduled to wrap in June, Conan: Red nails will be distributed through New Line, direct to DVD - though a possible theatrical release is under consideration.

quote from Comic Buyers Guide #1615 by James Mishler

How cool would that be!?! Animated Conan on the big screen.

James went on to say:

Though a live-action movie is in the works with Warner Brothers, Swordplay Entertainment has a deal for three Conan animated feature movies, and should be ready to announce the second movie of the three with Conan properties in March.

quote from Comic Buyers Guide #1615 - James Mishler

I hope they choose Beyond the Black River as one of the adaptations!

Great news all around

Edited by Strom, 01 February 2006 - 11:15 PM.

[Primeval]

Thanks for the info - very encouraging! I agree with your choice fro another adaptation, and would also like to see "Queen of the Black Coast".

[Kieran]

Come on People of the Black Circle

[terryallenuk]

Come on People of the Black Circle 

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NO - I want that as the live action one!

Terry

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[Eli]

The Frost Giants Daughter!
It starts with a no holds barred, fight til the last man battle!

[Kieran]

Come on People of the Black Circle?

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NO - I want that as the live action one!

Terry

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Either way is fine by me so long as it gets done

[jackx]

The Black Stranger would be my pick, story-wise, but all the pirates, buccaneers and picts might prove to be too much incentive for clich?... and I most certainly don't want any "Arrr! Pirates!" in it...

As for a theatrical release - I'll be glad if I can get my hands on the DVD without too much hassle, so I'm under no illusions as far as seeing it on the big screen over here is concerned - i.e. it doesn't matter at all if it makes it to the big screen, I'll not get to see it in the cinema either way. :/

[cimmerianbloke]

Any idea about a different-zone area release for us Europeans, or will we have to go underground for a low quality chinese copy?

[Taranaich]

Though a live-action movie is in the works with Warner Brothers, Swordplay Entertainment has a deal for three Conan animated feature movies, and should be ready to announce the second movie of the three with Conan properties in March.

quote from Comic Buyers Guide #1615 - James Mishler

I hope they choose Beyond the Black River as one of the adaptations!

Great news all around

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NO! That's MINE dammit!

Seriously, if they're doing three movies then they should be based on the more "epic" stories like The People of the Black Circle or basically any that involve a lot of people fighting. They probably won't do Beyond the Black River because of the lack of a female protagonist, but they may surprise us.

For some reason I'd like them to do Black Colossus. Perhaps it's the idea of hordes of Zulus, Assyrians and Egyptians clashing with Medieval Knights.