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Post by danieljames495 on Dec 2, 2020 17:51:42 GMT -5
Guys, just an FYI and a little background on the one collection that came out from Dark Horse. While the collection does get hit hard for quality in reviews, I learned a few years back on Facebook a lot of these strips were taken from forum member Bill Thom's own collection. Evidently Dark Horse and I'm guessing Conan Properties/Cabinet did not have their own complete archive to pull from... that they were forced to ask private collectors to provide what they had... I think we were lucky we got anything in regards to Conan newspaper strips being reprinted... Ah. Makes so much more sense and yes, it was really fascinating that they put together that one volume.
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Post by wolfshead on Dec 2, 2020 17:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by garbanzo on Dec 2, 2020 18:07:19 GMT -5
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Post by wolfshead on Dec 2, 2020 19:13:44 GMT -5
Marvel published only the earliest of the strips as follows: Marvel Treasury Edition #23 Conan Saga #32, 35, 37, 38, 42, 43, 46 I think it covers from 9/4/78-4/16/79
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Post by Monster on Dec 6, 2020 3:36:11 GMT -5
Ah — yes! These look amazing design-wise and very well done reproduction-wise (I really like that they have the halftones in there, unlike classic comic book reprints these days)! Would be an instant no hesitation purchase!
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Post by Monster on Dec 6, 2020 3:37:44 GMT -5
And I it is quite unfortunate. DH shot themselves in the foot here. Had there been better production quality, it probably would have sold more! Release a poor product and hope for the best? Why did they waste their time and money? They did that for a long while after the Truman/Giorello run honestly. Especially the art in Conan the Avenger (which is a shame because Van Lente's writing was one of my favorites). I personally loved the newspaper strips but I read somewhere that John Buscema left because the panels were too small and he wasn't given as much artistic freedom as he'd liked. The continuity was smooth and honestly, it is the production quality that messed up the success of this. The stories and art were absolutely great.
I was referring to the reproduction quality of the newspaper strips. The black and whites are very blurry and parts are a bit hard to read due to it.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Dec 31, 2020 14:18:31 GMT -5
Just downloaded those for my Conan comic folder, those are definitely better than nothing, thanks for that. I don't think you can print those and charge money for them, though. The scans would really need to be of a higher dpi, especially what I'm assuming are the Sunday colored strips.
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Post by spidermay on Dec 22, 2021 16:53:41 GMT -5
Ah — yes! These look amazing design-wise and very well done reproduction-wise (I really like that they have the halftones in there, unlike classic comic book reprints these days)! Would be an instant no hesitation purchase!
Volume#1 was printed in November by Panini Comics in Italy. Taken! Stories level not exceptional as the comic books of the 70ies but far better than the comics now produced.
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jan 30, 2022 6:48:11 GMT -5
I forgot about the Conan newspaper comic strip until I saw this thread the other day. The comic did not come to our newspaper until about 1981. I discovered the Conan books one weekend in the spring of 1979 in a game store, then the comic books in the summer of that year on the spinner racks at our local 7-11. I did not know that the comic had been running in some newspapers since Tuesday September 5, 1978. Maybe if my newspaper had carried that comic (above), I would have been a Conan fan about 9 months earlier!
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jan 30, 2022 7:13:14 GMT -5
Here is an article that accompanied the premier of the Conan comic from the Philadelphia Daily that day:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2022 4:30:56 GMT -5
Thanks for the article LInefacedscrivener
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Feb 1, 2022 8:16:27 GMT -5
I finally figured out that for most newspapers, the Conan comic was announced on Monday and premiered on Tuesday, but not everyone did that. Here is the comic that finishes the opening, as published in the Dayton Daily News on Weds. September 6, 1978.
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