THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN Volume 1 Joe Jusko Cover

This collects, into an impressively thick new graphic novel, the new Conan epic from John Arcudi and Max Von Fafner. Plus the welcome return of Robert E. Howard’s other fascinating character, the battle-hardened Puritan swordsman, Solomon Kane -- written and drawn by Patch Zircher. Also: a prose story from Jim Zub, art pin-ups, and more, everything in very well-done black and white, like the original Savage Sword of Conan was in the Marvel magazines. Conan the thief, mercenary and adventurer, is now a general. Promised riches beyond imagining, Conan finds himself bound for war at the head of an exiled Hyrkanian Prince’s army. But when ancient monsters are unleashed and the Prince’s recklessness imperils them all, Conan will be forced to choose: abandon wealth for safety or face danger head-on to prevent innocent blood from drenching the desert sands. Solomon Kane is abroad on a night when the veil between the unseen worlds is thin… and something sinister has broken through. When an abomination from the blackest hell emerges to brutalize a small Welsh town, Kane is called to deliver God’s judgment in the only manner he knows: salvation by the sword.