While Conan's army celebrates their defeat of the fearsome Picts, an enemy alliance assails the crown city of Conan's kingdom. Even Conan's prowess is not enough to lead his outnumbered and depleted legions to victory against these new adversaries, but an alliance with his homeland is possible, but only if Conan can defeat the mighty Cimmerian chieftain — in a battle to the death! The Chronicles of King Conan furthers the legend of Robert E. Howard's epic creation, collecting for the first time the long out-of-print Conan the King tales originally published by Marvel Comics.
The intense psychological portrait of a hitman—the anti-Jason Bourne—as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born for it. "A natural killer," his mentor—a middleman named Vespucci—said he was. He proved it with his first professional hit: a Fifth Circuit Court judge in Boston, executed with a sheet of Saran Wrap in the stairwell of her own courthouse. He's proved his merit often, usually with a Glock semiautomatic, but he's improvised too, with his bare hands, the heel of a shoe, knives, even a sewing machine. He is the consummate assassin, at the top of his form, immune to the psychological strains of his chosen profession. He is what the Russians call a Silver Bear. He calls himself Columbus. It's the name Vespucci gave him, ten years ago, when he discovered a dark, new world of fences, clients, marks, jobs, jack. Not that his real name meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father or his mother, a prostitute who became dangerously involved back in the seventies with an earnest young congressman named Abe Mann, then a rising star in the Democratic Party. The magnetic Abe Mann has since become the Speaker of the House. He is currently running for the Democratic nomination in an exhausting presidential campaign, weaving his way across the country. Columbus is not far behind. But as he pieces together his past and prepares the seamless assassination of his mark, the criminal underworld he has always ruled begins unraveling violently around him.
Conan is king! Join Conan, king of Aquilonia, his queen Zenobia, and their son Conn in this comics adaptation of L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, and Björn Nyberg's stories "The Witch of the Mists," "Black Sphinx of Nebthu," "Red Moon of Zembabwei," "Shadows in the Skull," and "The Ring of Rakhamon"! * Written by master comics scribe Roy Thomas and illustrated by the unparalleled John Buscema, King Conan collects issues #1 through #5 of the early '80s series originally published by Marvel Comics. * King Conanis based on a series of five short stories by Robert E. Howard, originally published in Weird Tales.
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The forces of Conan and his allies prepare to storm the port city of Kordava and take its fleet for the final assault on Argos to crush once and for all the enemy coalition that nearly cost Conan his kingdom. With Conan's daughter about to marry the king of Asgard and ensure a future of peace and security, the malefic sorcerer Crassus readies his own wedding gift--Conan's destruction at the hands of his own son! The Chronicles of King Conan further the legend of Robert E. Howard's epic creation, collecting for the first time the long out-of-print Conan the King tales originally published by Marvel Comics.
Conan must scale the forbidden Mount of Crom to prevent the release of the ancient god-demon Shuma Gorath, imprisoned by Crom himself! But the witch queen Vammatar and her necromancer husband, Kulan Gath, also seek the summit--and the iron-bound Books of Shuma-Gorath, with which they plan to free the malevolent god and bring it under their own baleful control! The Chronicles of Conan collects classic Conan the Barbarian tales never-before collected and unavailable for over a quarter of a century.
With the tide of war turned, Conan's armies invade Nemedia, arch-enemy of Conan's kingdom of Aquilonia. As the brutal siege commences, the greatest threat to Conan is not Nemedian sinew or steel, but the steeled heart of a boy raised in the black arts and dedicated to Conan's destruction. That boy is none other than Taurus, Conan's own lost son! Collects Marvel's Conan the King #36-#40, never before reprinted.
Reprinting the original stories of fantasy icon Conan! Collecting, for the first time, the long out-of-print Conan the King tales originally published by Marvel Comics.
