With CONAN The BARBARIAN #1, British comics artist BARRY SMITH had at last begun to divest his art style of the KIRBY influence and was finally forging ahead with a look more his own - and thank goodness for that! As a mere Kirby-clone he was second-rate, but as himself he was simply first class.
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(Oh dear, I've gone and done it again! I've already featured this cover in a previous post in this series. Never mind, it's worth seeing once more, but I need to get myself some memory tablets.)
