CONAN The BARBARIAN EPIC COLLECTION VOLUME FIVE... BY CROM!

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Thanks to regular reader CJ alerting me to the recent release of this titanic tome, I now have Conan The Barbarian Epic Collection Volume 5 keeping the previous four volumes company on my shelf.  With the contents of this book, I think I've now surpassed the number of monthly colour Conan issues I actually bought back in the day.  Only one issue seems vaguely familiar, while another was reprinted years later, which is when I first saw it.  Funny how, with certain comics, one tends to think one owned more issues than one actually had (I'm speaking with my 'posh voice' there), which is testament to just how impressionable we are as teenagers when things tend to leave more of a mark in our memories.

Anyway, read the spiel on the back cover and, if you're a Conan fan, run out and buy one.  I got mine for a 'steal' of a price (in my favour) via eBay, so it might well be worth your while trying there as well, by Crom!  Interestingly, although it says on all the back covers that the Epic Collections aren't published in chronological order, so far the Conan books have been, which I'm extremely happy about.