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For questions about the "Conan" franchise featuring Conan the Barbarian a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard, who lives in the Hyborian Age, a long forgotten past of our own world.

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Why do all Conan the Barbarian movies and TV adaptations stray so much from any of the origi...

For example, the non-fantastical "The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" was converted into a Conan story, even though the unedited parts of the text have a clearly different feel from a true Conan tale. … De Camp was credited as a "technical advisor" to Conan the Barbarian, and his attitude about the canonicity of various Conan stories is evident. …
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Did Robert E. Howard write anything other than Conan the Barbarian that’s not a collection o...

Many printings rename it Conan the Conqueror. It was serialized in Weird Tales in 1935–1936, starting with the December 1935 issue. It is not a fix-up, per se, but is very episodic. … Besides this, Howard did, however, write a number of intermediate-length genre stories, about Conan and otherwise. …
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Two Scenes From A Conan The Barbarian Story?

Conan could make out the dark tuft below that was the short black beard. And suddenly Conan was aware of something unnatural. Zargheba, he knew, was not a tall man. … Conan kicked the window open and stepped out on that narrow band. …
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A Conan the Barbarian story about a city in which everyone is constantly high with some kind...

For posterity, I wanted to note that there is another Conan story by R. E. … As the bolded passage points out, Conan notices, in universe, the parallels to "Xuthal of the Dusk"/"The Slitering Shadow." (These two stories are possibly my two favorite Conan tales. …
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Conan comic from the perspective of a winged demon amongst temple ruins in the desert, refle...

I know you said a comic strip, but this description brought to mind the monster from Conan comic book issue no. 9, specifically as it appears on page 10 of the issue. … There are also black-and-white reprint versions of this comic, like this one from Conan Saga no. 3. …
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Where is Sogoria and/or Isseni located in The Hyborian Age?

According to this Hyborian Atlas: SOGARIA This large, walled city-state, renowned for its fabrics woven from Khitian silk, is the westernmost of the Hyrkanian cities lying on the Silk Road caravan …
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Is there a Howard-canon map of Conan's world?

It can be found in The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, although it was not published in Howard's lifetime. …
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