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[Ironhand]

The Crawler was the original Marvel comic. I assume PR had the comics to go with the other LP's as well. The story does not make much sense without the comic. Just wondering why these are not there on the web site.

Not sure what you mean. Actually the Crawler comic was specifically contracted for Power Records, and was done by Neal Adams. It was not originally a comic book. Later, years later, it was turned into a comic book, Conan 116, and the page count was increased to bring it to 20 pages (I think the power stories were only about 16 pages) by another artist, Buscema IIRC, or someone like that. Which makes me wonder if Adams drew the other Power Record comic books!

Neal's Power Records

http://www.nealadams.com/records2.html

Terry

I liked that picture of Conan wreaking havoc on the bridge of the Enterprise!

Edited by Ironhand, 04 June 2010 - 10:26 AM.

[krommtaar]

Korak, what Slashing Sword meant I think is this : " Ok, there's a comic book that goes with the power records audio track Crawler from the mists, but where are the three comics that are supposed to go with the three OTHER Conan audio books from power records (Jewel of the Ages, Shadow of the Stolen City & The thunder dust)? "

To Slashing Sword and the others who maybe wonder about this: there has been only ONE comic book adaptation with MArvel's help (Crawler) , and the experience stopped there. There are NO other comic books going with the other Conan audio tracks, that's all.
Crawler was a "book and record(45 rpm)" set, the other 3 were simply audio books (by the way the 3 stories I mention were published with Crawler in a 4 audio book compilation, as you can see on Terry's link).

Edited by krommtaar, 04 June 2010 - 03:48 PM.

[Slashing Sword]

Korak, what Slashing Sword meant I think is this : " Ok, there's a comic book that goes with the power records audio track Crawler from the mists, but where are the three comics that are supposed to go with the three OTHER Conan audio books from power records (Jewel of the Ages, Shadow of the Stolen City & The thunder dust)? "

To Slashing Sword and the others who maybe wonder about this: there has been only ONE comic book adaptation with MArvel's help (Crawler) , and the experience stopped there. There are NO other comic books going with the other Conan audio tracks, that's all.
Crawler was a "book and record(45 rpm)" set, the other 3 were simply audio books (by the way the 3 stories I mention were published with Crawler in a 4 audio book compilation, as you can see on Terry's link).

Thanks for the clarification.

[phoenixcovenant]

Hey gang,

I was taking a look at my Conan collection and I remembered that I had some of the original comic strips from this period. I did a quick double check, and it seems that I have all of the color ones printed each Sunday from September 10th 1978 to April 12th 1981 from various Texas newspapers (mostly Houston. They were quite a pain to put in order, and I need to figure out a proper method of storing them than in essentially a giant comic book bag that I put together (but it works).

This might not be the right place to ask, and I might get some off-beat answers, but I will hazard it anyway. I though at one time we had a marketplace section? At any rate, what do you folks suppose such a collection of items would be worth, especially in light of these volumes being printed? I know having the original is best even in light of these re-prints. The newspaper itself is not yellowed or brittle at all, being in remarkable shape for something 30 years old captured weekly for nearly four years.

Have any of you seen complete or partial sets for sale before? I've never seen any except when I acquired the set that I do have, which was probably about eight years ago now. This is more for curiosity than anything, and yes, I'm aware that the market sets the value. I would just like to get an idea.

Cheers,

Jason

[Roquefort Raider]

Hi Jason,

I'm sure you can find an interested party for those pages; whatever else they might or might not be, they're exceedingly rare. Personally I'd keep them! They're a part of history!

Edited by Roquefort Raider, 15 June 2010 - 02:44 PM.

[Strom]

I'm really looking forward to a preview of this trade and how the strips are going to be presented. With a September 22nd release date we are probably a month away from that preview. Unless Philip can hook us up with a sneak peek?

[Strom]

So there is no confusion:

If you want to discuss the newspaper strips outside this Dark Horse trade just go here:

www.conan.com/invboard/index.php?showtopic=3389

This topic is for specific discussion on the Dark Horse trade.

[Strom]

Dark Horse has released the Conan: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 cover:

[Slashing Sword]

Dark Horse has released the Conan: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 cover:

Really? Notch another one for DH dropping the ball on covers.

[Aquilonia]

I don`t like this cover also. It sucks.

[krommtaar]

Honestly, Strom, the cover pic matches the tone and feel of the republished strips: vintage newspaper material.

I dn't understand some fans sometimes, either DH digs up an unpublished or refused SSOC painted cover for example, or simply stick with something "lo-res" as this, its not a problem for me anyways.
A digitally painted modern cover would not be adequate for such volumes.

Perhaps a pic involving Conan and a foe would be better, a very dynamic action pic taken from the inside art ?


The lo-res dotted colors are NOT a problem, it's the TITLE BAR in the middle which ruins it. It's just a thick black bar scotched across the pic!

Edited by krommtaar, 28 July 2010 - 02:35 PM.

[Officer Aggro]

I like the cover. It's simple, straightforward and screams Sunday comics to me. Comparing it to other comicstrip compilation covers, it seems pretty standard.

[Aquilonia]

Preview on amazon.com is out.

[amster]

Preview on amazon.com is out.

Looks fantastic! I've never seen these!

[Strom]

Dark Horse has released their preview of Conan: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 :

www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/17-222?page=0

[amster]

Dark Horse has released their preview of Conan: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 :

www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/17-222?page=0

Looks awesome! Words can't describe how absolutely stoked I am to get my hands on this! An entire cache' of Thomas/Buscema Conans that I've never seen before!

[Strom]

On sale this week!

[Buxom Sorceress]

Old conan newspaper strips ??

Some of you guys will buy/collect anything conan-tic, eh?

And you do know what newspapers are commonly used for...

.....yeah, that's right... wrapping your fish n chips...

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