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Friday 18 August 2023

COMPLETE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN UK WEEKLY COVER GALLERY OMNIBUS...

You may have seen these 18 Savage Sword Of Conan covers before on Crivens in three separate posts a good while back, but I thought you might like to refresh your memories with an all-in-one omnibus re-presentation of them. Issue 11 is the odd one out as it was specially drawn for the UK weekly edition it adorns and was never used in America (as far as I know), so it's unique among the Conan covers that Marvel produced.

Although the weekly survived for only 18 issues, a couple of years later the title was resurrected as a 52 page (I think) monthly, which lasted for 93 issues into 1985, but I no longer have them, having held onto only the first and the last. However, I do have a long run of Conan Saga, which reused most of the same monthly covers, so if I ever find the time to dig them out of my cupboard and scan them, I'll do a post sometime in the future.

In the meantime, enjoy those on offer and let your fellow Crivvies know which ones are your favourites. (Click on images to enlarge, then click again for optimum size.)

Below, the first issue of the title in its revived format (monthly) a couple of years later...

5 comments:

Colin Jones said...: SSOC #2 was my first ever Conan comic and I also owned #3 and an issue near the end of the run but I can't recall which one exactly. I had numerous issues of The Avengers & SSOC and of SSOC monthly up until early 1981 or thereabouts.; 19 August 2023 at 02:36
Rip Jagger said...: I find it interesting that these British versions appear in almost the exact order as their original American ones. The earliest Conan stories were very much a long saga of which each issue was merely a chapter. Reading them out of order does stifle some of the overall effect. That's true of most Marvel Comics of the era I guess but I remember noticing it more with Conan and that's likely because it was a different genre.; 19 August 2023 at 06:48
Kid said...: Bet you almost wish you still had them, eh, CJ? Then you could sell them for quite a few quid. Okay, they'll probably never be worth as much as the US editions, but you never know for sure - there might be the odd one that's worth nearly as much.

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I suppose there was no real reason to print the Conan stories out of sequence, RJ, as that would've required changing the 'next issue' blurbs in the final panels and giving themselves extra work. In early Marvel UK mags (MWOM and SMCW) some characters who appeared in cameos were changed because their own series hadn't yet been reprinted, and the redrawing wasn't always up to scratch.; 19 August 2023 at 07:39
McSCOTTY said...: I still remember the excitement of picking up that first issue along with issue 1 of the Super-Heroes with the Surfer, 2 of my all time favourite characters . Great days; 20 August 2023 at 12:05
Kid said...: So do I, McS, and it doesn't seem that long ago, but (to indulge in a cliche) it seems like forever ago at the same time. I still have my original issues of both sets of magazines.; 20 August 2023 at 12:53

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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