Affiliate Link – Conan Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Volume 1 Graphic Novel

I’ve been reading the various Chronicles of Conan* and the Savage Sword of Conan* collections and loving them. These classic stories are a lot of fun and the collections make great reading when it’s time to unwind.

But if you wanna skip the entire series and just zero in on a selection of key — and great — stories then you may want to give the Conan Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Volume 1 Graphic Novel* a shot. It’s $50, but it’s actually cheaper in the long run if you just want a few stories and don’t want to find yourself collecting every volume in the series of reprints of the old Marvel Conan comics. But don’t blame me if you have so much fun that you go ahead and dive into the rest of the Conan books. No, blame the seventies and Roy Thomas.

In 1970, Barry Windsor-Smith burst onto the comic-book scene with his dynamic portrayal of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, altering the course of the blue-eyed Cimmerian forever, and cementing himself as one of the greatest artists to touch pencil to paper. Nearly forty years later, Dark Horse Comics, in the tradition of the Dark Horse Archives collections, reprints Barry Windsor-Smith’s entire run on Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian in two fine hardcover volumes!

The first volume of The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives includes such classic tales as Rogues in the House and The Tower of the Elephant, written by Roy Thomas and fully illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith – now presented as they were intended, remastered using the original color palette! This volume reprints the first half of Barry Windsor-Smith’s run on Conan the Barbarian. 200 pages.