A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from 1977. Issue 12 contains nothing directly by Howard but a round-robin tale based upon a Robert E. Howard fragment. The cover pictures Conan even though it looks more like Tarzan.
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The front cover art is by Wally Wood, reproduced from the color version of the original art. This art first appeared on the dustjacket of the Gnome Press hardcover THE RETURN OF CONAN in 1957.
Articles include the transcript of the entire WEIRD TALES panel from the 1998 San Diego Comicon (the panelists included Forry Ackerman and Gary Gianni). There are also various articles on heroic fantasy and sword & sorcery. An articles on Henry Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis (a character which was first published in WEIRD TALES from 1938-41). A 1989 interview with Karl Edward Wagner reprinted from the British publication DAGON. An interview with writer Chuck Pogue about the movie and novelization of DRAGONHEART. “Sword & Sorcery In Comics, part 2”. A facsimile reprint of “The Challenge From Beyond” from its original appearance in FANTASY MAGAZINE in 1935. A 1950s profile of Virgil Finlay. An examination of the possible origins of the art published on the cover of SWORD & FANTASY #1 and more. Artwork in the issue is by Rick McCollum, Mahlon Fawcett, Virgil Finlay and others.
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Round-robin story originally appearing in Fantasy Magazine, Sept. 1935.
“The Challenge From Beyond” was written in two versions by five prominent science fiction and five prominent weird fiction authors using the same title.
This one is illustrated by David Ireland
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This is a collection of Robert E. Howard’s kind of science fiction stories, including the perhaps most known Almuric (a bit like John Carter of Mars).This volume is 283 pages, plus introductory material.
This volume is printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 200 copies, each individually numbered. Cover design and painting by Mark Schultz; introduction by Michael A. Stackpole; edited by Rob Roehm.
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