Wednesday, 24 February 2016

KLASSIC KOMIC KOVERS: CONAN The BARBARIAN #1...

Copyright MARVEL COMICS and CPI

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.)