FREE THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: VOLUME 1 PDF Roy Thomas,Barry Windsor-Smith,John Buscema | 544 pages | 22 Jan 2008 | Dark Horse Comics,U.S. | 9781593078386 | English | Milwaukie, United States The Savage Sword of Conan, Volume 1 by Roy Thomas But that's not all. Also included in this tome are Conan's few appearances in the title Savage Tales - for the complete Conan collection! Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Barry Windsor-Smith Illustrator. John Buscema Illustrator. Jim Starlin Illustrator The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1. Joss Jodloman Illustrator. Gil Kane Illustrator. The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 Marcos Illustrator. Tim Conrad Illustrator. In the mid s following the colossal success of Conan the Barbarian, Roy Thomas helped expand the universe of Conan to showcase further stories and the talents of some of the comics industry's best with the equally popular Savage Sword of Conan magazine. Now, for the first time in over thirty years, these primal tales, featuring Robert E. Howard's most popular character In the mid s following the colossal success of Conan the Barbarian, Roy Thomas helped expand the universe of Conan to showcase further stories and the talents of some of the comics industry's best with the equally popular Savage Sword of Conan magazine. Howard's most popular character, are available in this, the first in a series of massive trade paperbacks, collecting all Savage Sword Conan stories beginning with issue one. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 Original Title. Savage Sword of Conan 1Savage Tales Conan the Barbarian. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 27, Quentin Wallace rated it it was amazing. I was too young to read these when they first came out, but I do remember reading this comic magazine series in the 80s. This series was in black and white, and also magazine sized rather than comic sized. This was to denote it's more mature subject matter, and while it's not exactly "Adults Only" it is definitely aimed at an adult audience. It wasn't just the suggestive nudity and the sometimes graphic violence, but the stories themselves were just more mature than it's four color counterparts. These were adult tales of adventure, with sometimes thick prose. These weren't "dumbed down" at all, and read more akin to a pulp magazine of the s rather than a comic book. Which makes sense, given that's where Conan got his start and many of the stories adapted were taken right from Robert E. Howard's original stories. The art was about as perfect as possible for the stories, really capturing the gritty essence of these barbaric tales. Overall any fan of sword and sorcery comics should read this volume as it represents some of the best work of the genre. Sep 07, Algernon Darth Anyan rated it really liked it Shelves: I'm done with issues 1 to 10 of this vintage sword and sorcery magazine. I like the clean look of the black and white graphic art of Buscema and Alcala, the wealth of detail in each panel, the covers by Vallejo. If I'm honest, I also like the hot, scantily dressed babes the series is so fixated on. Even the The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 have their old fashioned charm, promoting bodybuilding or karate skills in 10 easy lesons. Roy Thomas as the writer is OK, a bit too bombastic and free with doom ladden adjectives I'm done with issues 1 to 10 of this vintage sword and sorcery magazine. Roy Thomas as the writer is OK, a bit too bombastic and free with doom ladden adjectives, but it fits the subject matter. As an added bonus, there are several informative essays about the genre by Lynn Carter and others. I plan to continue with the issues, although some of the guest artists are not in the same league as Buscema. Oct 30, Paul rated it liked it Shelves: graphic-novelsreviewedconan. This volume one Omnibus edition features pages and includes the Conan stories from Savage Tales 1 — 5, and Savage Sword of Conan 1 — These first five issues pre-dated Savage Sword and within a few years had already escalated in price beyond my pocket change. With this volume we are seeing these stories again for the first time in over 30 years. What immediately strikes you about the book is the incredible roster The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 artists. From a purely artistic standpoint, Savage Sword and Savage Tales were dwarfing just about anything else going on in comics at that time. The volume leads off with one of Robert E. Still a teenager, he encounters a beautiful woman in the frozen north who leads him into an ambush by her giant brothers. The story features some of the best art to grace the magazine by Barry Smith. I have a theory about present day comic book art… Comic art APPEARS to be much better than it was say 20 or 30 years ago but this is due to advances in technology as far as printing, colorization, and digital enhancing. Today we see so many artists working in a minimalist, cartoony style because it can be digitally produced much quicker than hand drawn artwork. Look at Conan in the wilderness as Smith painstakingly draws seemingly every blade of grass and every leaf The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 the trees and bushes. Look at the close-ups of Conan with so many individual follicles of hair illustrated and then compare it to a lot of art today where you might get a curl or two drawn in. Smith puts most modern day artists to shame with his unique, renaissance influenced style. The The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 issue of Savage Sword presents another Howard adaptation, Black Colossus in which Conan faces off against a three thousand year old sorcerer. Buscema always drew a great Conan but Alcala pushed his work a notch higher with a gritty detail that would only work in a black and white format. This story features Conan at his most resilient, surviving his crucifixion in the desert to get revenge on the man who put him there. The first parts were printed in Giant-Size Conan the Barbarian and while this is a great Story it might have been best just to skip it rather than having it pickup in the middle. This was one of the best The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 that Marvel ever produced and we have to thank Dark Horse for making these stories available again to Conan fans. Grade A Tim Janson Oct 20, Sebastien rated it really liked it. Savage Sword of Conan falls right in there. The quality is surprisingly good, both the writing and the artwork. Of course given the range of material in this book some stories are stronger than others, but in comparison to the last volume of comics I read Eerie Volume 10 the lows aren't that low. I especially enjoyed John Buscema and Pablo Marcos' work, some killer pen and ink work right The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 Barry Windsor Smith's art is also excellent, but a bit over-ornamented for my particular tastes he has a very tight style but often for me when a work gets too detailed it can lose some organic feel and suffocates the life out of the imagery. I assumed the story and characters would be a bit hokey or corny, I've never read Conan or had much knowledge on it other than the most superficial pop culture stuff. But actually overall the material and characters are managed The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1, there is some very well-told, paced, clever, imaginative, nicely executed story-telling. I especially loved the stories that involved weird mystical wizards and grand cavernous palaces that were teeming with unknown terrors. The suspense in those stories was pretty awesome. Of course there are things that make this work very much of its time and place. The repeated use of rape as narrative device was off-putting, it was overdone and often poorly managed and kind of goes hand in hand with the general representation of women in this time and type of comic women are basically just reduced to objects for fulfilling male desires. But you'd have to be living under a rock to not expect these things given how these comics were marketed and the target demographic these comics were geared for. If you can manage your way past those things there is a lot to enjoy and appreciate in these works. Aug 26, Diz rated it it was ok Shelves: graphic-novels. There are some really fine examples of illustration in this volume, but in the end I find that Conan is not for me. I don't The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 like Conan as a character because he just doesn't seem to care most of the time. Also, The Savage Sword of Conan: Volume 1 supporting characters are all disposable props, so there aren't really any meaningful relationships in these stories.