Robert E. Howard’s Myth Maker

28
Jan

Myth Maker by Cross Plains Comics. Adaptations of Howard’s short stories. Contains “Men of the Shadows” and “Dream Snake” by Tim Sale and Matt Hollingsworth, “Spear & Fang” by Richard Corben and Eric Hope, and “Dermod’s Bane” by Kelley Jones, Laurie Smith, and George Freeman.

Pin-up art by Rafael Kayanan, John Bolton, Michael Kaluta, Mark Schultz, Steve Lightle, and Colin MacNeil, a bit of history on comics adaptions of Howard’s creations by Thomas, and a short bio on Novalyne Price Ellis, author of a well-known Robert E. Howard memoir, by Rusty Burke.

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Fantasy Crossroads #13

28
Jan

A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from June 1978. This issue contains the first appearance of the poem “The Feud”. There is also a poem by Tevis Clyde Smith titled “What Robert E. Howard Said One Wednesday Night”.

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Fantasy Crossroads #7

28
Jan

A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from February 1976. Issue 7 contains the first appearance of the poem “Madame Goose’s Rhymes”, the untitled story (“The night was damp, misty, …”), a letter to Harold Preece from August 1928 and the story College Socks (featuring Kid Allison).

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Fantasy Crossroads #9

28
Jan

A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from August 1976. Issue 9 Contains the first appearance of THE LAST LAUGH by Howard. It also contains a review of the album record “From the Hells beneath the Hells” by Dennis McHaney and a Red Nails portfolio by Gene Day. It also contains a short story by Tevis Clyde Smith.

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Weird Tales 32 Unearthed Terrors

25
Jan

An anthology collecting 32 stories of horror and the macabre, one for each year of the magazines initial run. Storyies by Edmond Hamilton, H. Warner Munn, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, Jack Williamson, Richard Matheson, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, and many, many more. Includes some of the illustrations from the pulp magazines.

Only Howard’s THE SHADOW KINGDOM is included from his stories.

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Sword & Fantasy #19

09
Jan

No REH stories or poems in this volume, but a review of the movie The Whole Wide World and artwork featuring Robert E. Howard by Rick McCollum.

Contents include articles by and about H.P. Lovecraft. Sword & Sorcery art. Article on the A. Merritt novel THE FACE IN THE ABYSS, and more. Cover by Margaret Brundage.

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Fantasy Crossroads #8

04
Jan

A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from May 1976. Issue 8 Contains the first appearance of both DAUGHTERS OF FEUD and MISER’S GOLD. Cover illustration by Richard Corben (from an illustration of Night Images featuring REH poems).

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Fantasy Crossroads #15

04
Jan

A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon. This is issue 15, from 1979. It has nothing directly by Robert E. Howard, but has chapter XI and XII of Ghor, Kin-Slayer. The back cover is wrongly credited Frank Frazetta, when it is Stephen Fabian’s illustration from Garden of Death. 

Last issue of this publication, although the editor expected to publish in March, 1979 and had enough material for multiple additional issues.

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