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    TITAN-COMICS.COM

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    Comics is a registered trademark of Titan Publishing Group, Ltd. © 2023 Conan Properties International LLC (“CPI”). CONAN, CONAN THE BARBARIAN,
    CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, HYBORIA, THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, and related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses thereof are
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    NEMEDIAN
    CHRONICLES

    “K now, oh prince, that between the years


    when the oceans drank Atlantis and
    the gleaming cities, and the years
    of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age
    undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread
    across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars
    — Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora
    with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-
    haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth
    that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia
    with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose
    riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest
    kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in
    the dreaming west.

    Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired,


    sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a
    slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth,
    to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his
    sandalled feet.”

    – THE NEMEDIAN CHRONICLES


    ON THE ROAD OF
    KINGS...
    V
    ENARIUM. Aquilonian forces surge
    northward in their conquest of the
    barbaric northern territories. The
    clans of Cimmeria have banded together
    to defend their southern border from the
    “civilized” invaders. Among the Cimmerian
    numbers is CONAN, the son of a blacksmith,
    about to have his first true taste of battle…
    A WORD FROM THE WISE
    HITHER CAME CONAN
    by Jeffrey Shanks

    W
    hen CONAN THE by a critically acclaimed relaunch by
    CIMMERIAN first appeared Dark Horse in the early 2000s and more
    in the pages of the pulp recently a well-publicized return
    magazine WEIRD TALES in 1932, it not to Marvel. Now HEROIC
    only marked the debut of writer ROBERT SIGNATURES and TITAN
    E. HOWARD’s most famous character, but COMICS carry on this great
    also the dawn of the barbarian archetype
    in popular culture. Without CONAN as
    a prototype, there would be no He-Man,
    no Khal Drogo, no GOD OF WAR, no
    barbarian class in D&D.
    Created at the height of America’s Great
    Depression, when the public’s mistrust of
    the structural pillars of civilization was
    at its peak, CONAN, a thief, pirate, and
    mercenary was the perfect anti-hero. After
    all, it was an era when politicians and
    financial institutions were the enemy, and
    bank robbers were the folk heroes. Over
    the next century, CONAN would continue
    to resonate with those who hold a cynical
    eye towards authority—and perhaps that is
    why he remains such a popular character
    in increasingly cynical times.
    As with other great fictional archetypes
    like Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, or tradition, and what better way to relaunch
    Superman, CONAN too has transcended such a storied character, then a recounting
    his original prose medium, appearing of the first significant event of his youth:
    in films, television, animation, video the sack of Venarium?
    games, RPGs, and of course comicbooks. It was at the Aquilonian fortified
    It is in this last form that CONAN has settlement of Venarium that a teenaged
    arguably achieved his greatest success, CONAN—already bigger than most
    first appearing in bootleg Mexican comics full-grown men—would receive his
    in the 1950s and ‘60s, then becoming baptism of blood. It was at Venarium
    one of the best-selling titles for Marvel that CONAN would get his first glimpse
    in the 1970s and ‘80s. This was followed of civilization as one of the horde of
    Cimmerians that overwhelmed and “Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of
    destroyed the frontier town. And it is circumstance. And barbarism must always
    with Venarium, that we get a glimpse of ultimately triumph.”
    HOWARD’s critical commentary on the HOWARD wrote those words in an era
    hubris of imperialistic overreach. The when colonial empires were beginning
    sack of Venarium is first referenced in the to crumble and modern technology was
    original CONAN story “BEYOND THE just beginning to explode; and yet nearly
    BLACK RIVER,” recounted in flashback by a century later, these concepts are still
    an older CONAN -- ironically working as a relevant as we see anxieties about social
    scout for Aquilonia in a similarly doomed media overload and the environmental
    attempt at colonization. consequences of technological advancement.
    It’s in this story that one of the Sometimes modern civilization can feel
    characters voices HOWARD’s own take pretty unnatural, and CONAN remains a
    on the millennia-long struggle between refreshing alternative perspective and his
    barbarism and civilization: adventures make one helluva a great read!

    “ROBERT E. HOWARD GROUP SHOT” – Rafael Kayanan


    1. Ace Jessel 6. Cormac Mac Art El Borak” 15. Sonya of Rogatino
    2. Valeria 7. Wulfhere 11. Robert Ervin Howard 16. Sailor Steve Costigan
    3. Grom 8. Kull 12. Wild Bill Clanton 17. “Dark” Agnes de Chastillon
    4. Bran Mak Morn 9. Conan of Cimmeria 13. Esau Cairn 18. Breckinridge Elkins
    5. Solomon Kane 10. Francis Xavier Gordon – “ 14. Turlogh Dubh O’Brien 19. Brule
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    Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith and John Buscema!
    Features high quality color restoration work, to make the strips feel as close
    to the original experience as possible!!

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    and distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of CPI. Heroic Signatures is a trademark of Cabinet Licensing LLC.
    INTERIOR
    DEVELOPMENT
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    beginnings
    of Conan
    comics from
    thumbnails
    through to
    final lettering.
    THE PULSE-POUNDING
    RETURN OF CONAN!

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