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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 16:23:18 GMT -5
I found this on a Turkish website. According to the site this was published by Curtis in the UK. Why the Dollar price? And why has Conan got blonde hair? Anyone know anything about this blonde Conan comic?
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Post by terryallenuk on Sept 5, 2017 12:57:13 GMT -5
Never seen this , Curtis was a comic/magazine distribution company . I guess it _may_have been published in the UK for a cent dollar/cent country , Australia perhaps ?
Terry
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 13:19:48 GMT -5
Never seen this , Curtis was a comic/magazine distribution company . I guess it _may_have been published in the UK for a cent dollar/cent country , Australia perhaps ? Terry I have managed to find a couple more. I found these two at Cromsblood's Crom: Ultimate Conan blog: bluffness19.rssing.com/chan-10416575/all_p1.html Here's the description from the relevant post: As promised, ebay seller Johncad3 has put more of his astounding collection of Conan and related collectibles up for sale! There are so many incredible items (and many that I’ve never seen before) that I simply must cross-post a few more samples here for all to see!
First up, these three very rare Conan the Barbarian Red Nails comic books from 1975, featuring a very blond Conan! I'm sure you'll recognize the Barry (Windsor) Smith artwork and we all know who Roy Thomas is. I've seen thumbnails of these covers on the interwebs before, and if I remember correctly they were published in the UK. These weren't published by Marvel, and at a glance the logo in the corner looks like that of Curtis...can anyone confirm or deny that?
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Post by mrp on Sept 5, 2017 14:11:34 GMT -5
Marvel's Comics and magazines were distributed through Curtis Comics in the US. The CC you see int he corner boxes of many Marvel newsstand books and mags is the Curtis symbol. There is a chance the deal included foreign distribution rights for Marvel material at some point, but I don't know for certain. If so, these are likely the result of that.
Many times US comics, particularly Marvel were reprinted in the UK in black and white, so only b&W files versions not color guides were provided. If they were taking interior art to repurpose as covers in the UK or elsewhere, they probably had only the b&w art to work with and had to recolor them without the original color guides, and whoever did it was probably unfamiliar with Conan and made him a blonde. This is all an educated guess mind you, I don't know foe certain.
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Post by mrp on Sept 5, 2017 19:42:26 GMT -5
I found this on a Turkish website. According to the site this was published by Curtis in the UK. Why the Dollar price? And why has Conan got blonde hair? Left out in the sun too long, perhaps? Have any other Conan comics featured the photo of Howard on their cover? ...... Dark Horse included a pic of REH on the covers to celebrate his centennial. -M
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Post by terryallenuk on Sept 6, 2017 13:22:36 GMT -5
The weekly UK reprints and later monthly ones did feature Conan on the covers , and IIRC later ones also had colour pages . They were produced by the Marvel US Bullpen originally before being prepped over here for printing by various publishers , they got the colours right on ours.
Terry
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 15:18:30 GMT -5
Dark Horse included a pic of REH on the covers to celebrate his centennial. -M I findit interesting and unexpected to see him being accorded that honour on a comic from 1975, not so much the Dark Horse one. ...... Yeah I agree, a comic called Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian in 1975 is quite unexpected. One thing's for sure, De Camp certainly didn't suggest the title
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 15:30:13 GMT -5
This is a copy & paste job from a previous post in the Great Art of Conan thread concerning the Conan reprints in the UK - Maybe this'll help narrow it down. The initial Savage Sword of Conan comics by Marvel UK reprinted the Conan the Barbarian color comics, in black and white. They were reprinting the early Barry Smith stuff. Unfortunately, the series only lasted for 18 issues. So, Marvel UK decided to merge the Conan series with the Avengers weekly comic. This was from issue 95-148, ending in 1976. They were all reprints, sorry, no team-up between Conan and the Avengers either. Marvel UK also had the habit of chopping up a single issue of CTB and reprinting them over 2 or 3 UK issues. Sometimes new splash pages were added for new episodes. The first issue 95, 12 July 1975 Here's the announcement for the new merger after the The Avengers and the Savage Sword of Conan. The second volume of SSOC was released in November 1977, and they actually reprinted SSOC comics. That lasted till 1985 for a total of 93 issues, that's kinda impressive. Here's a link with some of the covers starlogged.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/1975-76-avengers-and-savage-sword-of.html Some more info on Conan and Marvel UK's bronze age titles www.wymann.info/comics/005-MarvelUK2.html
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 16:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Sept 6, 2017 17:19:53 GMT -5
I smell a hoax...
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Post by terryallenuk on Sept 7, 2017 13:18:30 GMT -5
In the UK after the merged Conan/Avengers he did pop up in other weeklies over the years printing the Conan colour comic. The SSOC monthly was also of extra interest due to the film articles written specifically for the title by Brit. writers who I think were part of the Starburst film mag. team as they were part of the same publishing arm at the time , think that was when Dez Skinn was running things.
I've posted the pic. on various FB sites , everyone's confused by it. Starting to think Jason's hoax comment might be right!
Terry
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Sept 9, 2017 0:35:53 GMT -5
why would any hoaxer /faker do conan with blond hair? [ they are just stupid? ] why would they make a series of 3 covers? [ would take much more time + effort ]
most editors who do fake covers are very talented and pay attention to details. and most are proud of their fake art and advertise their name and talents [ to get jobs in the industry? ] == >> this explanation by mrp is very plausible... *Many times US comics, particularly Marvel were reprinted in the UK in black and white, so only b&W files versions not color guides were provided. If they were taking interior art to repurpose as covers in the UK or elsewhere, they probably had only the b&w art to work with and had to recolor them without the original color guides, and whoever did it was probably unfamiliar with Conan and made him a blonde. This is all an educated guess mind you, I don't know foe certain.* == but the 1975 round REH logo + title is still a bit puzzling? maybe paradox/cpi then later copied that reh logo idea from these 1975 blond covers? == [ due to the silly blond hair, i will not copy them into my pc art collection ]
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Post by terryallenuk on Sept 9, 2017 8:54:15 GMT -5
One of the guys on my REH Comics page has come up with a possible explanation : "Most definitely not a hoax.I bought it in the grim North of Holland in the late '80s (2nd hand), so am not ruling out it's a 1970s Dutch bootleg. Don't mind the "C" logo or the 75c price tag - that might all be fake trade dress, "in the style of the American comics". It possibly seeks to emulate 'independent comics' more than 'Marvel comics' and be sold to hippies at record fairs, comicbook shops (different things than you'd have now, like this relic of a shop where I actually bought it ) and pot shops. No indicia at all. A further indication that it's a bootleg. I wouldn't be surprised if it's run off the same press as the local underground music press magazines of the time (which it was a golden era for)"
BTW still have those pocket books , IIRC there are about 12 Conans . Marvel UK produced about a half dozen different titles but they never lasted for long.
Terry
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Post by terryallenuk on Sept 10, 2017 13:50:30 GMT -5
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