nos200 barbarians of the border

série:	Conan, savage sword
dessinateur / scénariste:	Collectif
éditeur:	Marvel USA
genre:	Heroic-Fantasy
classement:	carton133
date:	1992
format:	broché
état:	TBE/N
valeur:	5 €
critère:	*
remarques:	200th issue spectacular no 200 of Savage Sword of Conan, serie 2929, August 1992 cover Joe Jusko 1/ Conan, barbarians of the border a 200th issue celebration of the hero, created by Robert E. Howard a double story drawn in parallel with Conan in the hyborian age and with Bob Howard at the us/mexican border, February 1932 based on the novel "the phoenix on the sword" by Howard with the world Howard writes of already mapped out as if he had torn the page from some ancient long-forgotten atlas by Roy Thomas, John Buscema and Ernie Chan 2/ a short history of Savage Sword by the editor in respect of no 200 Conan himself appeared in prose tales written by Robert E. Howard for the horror/fantasy pulp magazine weird tales beginning in 1932 (just to remember Howard commited suicide in 1936) in the mid-60's, Conan burst into popularity in a series of paperback books with powerful covers by Frank Frazetta and with new adventures added by Nyborg, de Camp and Lin Carter in 1970, Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee and associate editor Roy Thomas decided it might be fun to adapt Conan into comics form and arranged with Texan Glenn Lord, agent for the literary estate of Robert E. Howard to publish a color comic which was called Conan the Barbarian (Howard however had rarely used the word barbarian, generally calling his hero "Conan the Cimmerian") with script by Roy Thomas and art by a young English artist named Barry Smith, Conan no 1 was published October 1970, after a rocky start saleswise, Conan soon became one of Marvel's most popular magazine with John Buscema as regular penciler and Ernie Chan as most frequent inker in 1971 Conan was made the cover star of Marvel's first entry into the black-and-white comics field with Savage Tales no 1, the issue also starred Ka-Zar and three other features, due to an on-and-off publishing schedule, it took till 1974 to publish a mere five issues of Savage Tales but by then, it was clear that Conan could carry such a magazine all by himself, thus Savage Tales was left in Ka-Zar's hands where it survived for another six issues and Savage Sword of Conan no 1 was published August 1974 with a cover by the Frazetta-influenced artist Boris Vallejo, Savage Sword was an instant hit and since no 19 in 1977 has been published on a monthly schedule from 1974-1981, Savage Sword saw the adaptation of virtually all Conan tales written up to that time by De Camp, Carter, Nyborg Andy Offutt and of course Howard himself during the 1980's Savage Sword featured stories by a wide variety of new writers including Bruce Jones, Michael Fleisher, Chuck Dixon and others plus a multiplicity of talented artists, one of the foremost of those being Mike Docherty who currently also pencils Conan the barbarian each month let us know so that the next two hundred issues of Savage Sword can be even greater, even more spectacular than the first (note of reader: unfortunately the adventures of Conan having been more than exploited, the current serie ceased to be published with number 235 on July 1995 and despite new issues with titles such as Conan the Savage, Conan Saga or Savage Sword in color, the success did not meet the previous black-and-white publications) 3/ short biography of Robert E. Howard, father of Conan born 1902 in Texas and deceased 1936, he made his first sale in 1924 when weird tales accepted his novel "spear and fang", a short tale about Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal 4/ commentary about the story behind "Conan of the border" which conceived by Roy Thomas the idea for combining Conan and his real-life creator, Robert E. Howard into a single story with a third element an "adventure" happening to Howard himself which would be found, in the end, to be as fully a fantasy as Conan himself, in fact, by story's end, one is not quite sure whether Howard or Conan is the more literally "real", the story actually based on a trip effected by Howard early 1932 south by bus to San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley including the border town of Rio Grande City
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