Weird Tales from December 1932 was the first issue with a Conan story. It featured ‘The Phoenix on the Sword’ where Conan is King.It is actually a rewritten King Kull story.

Girasol Collectables did a great replica of the original with scanned text and interior art right from the original pulp pages. No editing. No reset text.

Contents

• The Door to Yesterday • [Jules de Grandin] • (1932) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• The Man Who Conquered Age • (1932) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• Thrice Haunted • (1932) • poem by Alfred I. Tooke
• The Phoenix on the Sword • [Conan] • (1932) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Quick and the Dead • (1932) • short story by Vincent Starrett
• Buccaneers of Venus (Part 2 of 6) • [Grandon • 3] • (1932) • serial by Otis Adelbert Kline
• The Lives of Alfred Kramer • (1932) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• Frankenstein (Part 8 of 8) • [Frankenstein] • (1932) • serial by Mary Shelley

Notes

Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 6.
Interior Artists:
Jayem Wilcox
Frank Utpatel
Andrew Brosnatch (The Eyrie)
Hugh Rankin

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