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Weird Tales 1936 April

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

1936
Material type
Pulp magazine
Publication categories
Pulps: Weird Tales

Publication date: April 1936

Introduction

Part 5 of 5. The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard's suicide, although not the last to be written. The novel was first published in serial form in the December 1935 through April 1936 issues of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The first book edition was published by Gnome Press in hardcover in 1950. The Gnome Press edition retitled the story Conan the Conqueror, a title retained by all subsequent editions until 1977, when the original title was restored in an edition issued published by Berkley/Putnam in 1977. The Berkley edition also reverted the text to that of its original Weird Tales publication, discarding later edits. Later editions have generally followed Berkley and published under the original title. The 1997 film Kull the Conqueror is loosely based on The Hour of the Dragon, replacing Conan with Kull but otherwise keeping the same basic plot.

Notes

Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 4.
There are two known Canadian editions of Weird Tales.
The first edition ran from June 1935 to July 1936.
It was identical to the U.S. edition in contents, though there are some cover differences.
The second edition ran for 58 issues bi-monthly from May 1942 to November 1951.
Both editions were published by the American News Company of Toronto.
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
The Hour of the Dragon is illustrated by Vincent Napoli.

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Edition and production details

Format
Pulp
Publication date
April 1936
Pages
132
Publisher / imprint
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Cover art
Margaret Brundage
Illustrations
Se above
Related editions
American News Company, ltd. April 1936

1 linked Howard work

60 contents entries

  1. "The Hour of the Dragon" (Part 5 of 5)
  2. The Ruler of Fate (Part 1 of 3) • serial by Jack Williamson 386
  3. Non-REH Content
  4. The Ruler of Fate (Part 1 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 387 · artwork
  5. "The Ruler of Fate" (Part 1 of 3) by Jack Williamson
  6. Painted Cave • poem by Julia Boynton Green 403 · poem
  7. "Painted Cave" by Julia Boynton Green (poem)
  8. The Face in the Wind • novelette by Carl Jacobi 404 · novelette
  9. "The Face in the Wind" by Carl Jacobi
  10. The Face in the Wind • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay 405 · artwork
  11. "Son of Satan" by Arlton Eadie
  12. Son of Satan • novelette by Arlton Eadie 419 · novelette
  13. "They Shall Rise" by August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer
  14. Son of Satan • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay 419 · artwork
  15. "The Druidic Doom" by Robert Bloch
  16. They Shall Rise • novelette by August Derleth and Mark Schorer [as by August W. Derleth and Mark Schorer] 437 · novelette
  17. "The Sick Muse" by Charles P. Baudelaire (poem)
  18. They Shall Rise • interior artwork by Frank Utpatel 437 · artwork
  19. "The Call in the Night" by Chandler H. Whipple
  20. The Hour of the Dragon (Part 5 of 5) • [Conan] • serial by Robert E. Howard (book publication as Conan the Conqueror 1950) 450
  21. "The Seance" by Ronal Kayser (poem)
  22. The Hour of the Dragon (Part 5 of 5) • interior artwork by Vincent Napoli 451 · artwork
  23. "The Rajah's Gift" by E. Hoffmann Price
  24. The Druidic Doom • short story by Robert Bloch 472 · story
  25. The Eyrie (letter column)
  26. The Druidic Doom • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay 473 · artwork
  27. The Sick Muse • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of La muse malade 1857) [as by Charles P. Baudelaire] 485 · poem
  28. The Call in the Night • short story by Chandler H. Whipple 486 · story
  29. The Seance • short story by Ronal Kayser 493 · story
  30. Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 499 · artwork
  31. The Rajah's Gift • [Ismeddin] • (1925) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price 499 · story
  32. Coming Next Month (Weird Tales, April 1936) • essay by uncredited 501 · essay
  33. The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 506 · artwork
  34. The Eyrie (Weird Tales, April 1936) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 506 · essay
  35. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Satan Improves with Age • essay by Sidney Slomich 506 · essay
  36. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Revive King Kull • essay by Mrs. John A. Heller 506 · essay
  37. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Left to the Imagination • essay by Paul S. Smith 506 · essay
  38. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Man Alive! • essay by Eugene Benefiel 507 · essay
  39. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Old-Time Weird Stories • essay by Edward E. Smith 507 · essay
  40. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): About Our Covers • essay by B. M. Reynolds 508 · essay
  41. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Ooooh! • essay by Gertrude Hemken 508 · essay
  42. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): What a Cover! • essay by William Blackfort 508 · essay
  43. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Scarcer Than Hens' Teeth • essay by Grant Vail Wallace 508 · essay
  44. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Northwest Smith, Conan, de Grandin • essay by Edgar Hurd 509 · essay
  45. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): A New Canadian Reader • essay by R. C. R. Taunton 510 · essay
  46. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Smith, Jirel, Conan, et al. • essay by A. Coffey 510 · essay
  47. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Drugged or Half Asleep • essay by Joseph Robinsky, Jr. 510 · essay
  48. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): The Dark Land • essay by Julius Hopkins 510 · essay
  49. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by Henry Kuttner 510 · essay
  50. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by James G. Merriman 510 · essay
  51. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by Thompson Young 510 · essay
  52. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by Robert A. Madle 511 · essay
  53. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by F. P. O'Connor 511 · essay
  54. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by Pugh C. Smith 511 · essay
  55. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Pointed Paragraphs • essay by Valerie L. Schultz 511 · essay
  56. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Blonds vs. Redheads • essay by Lillian Kaltz 511 · essay
  57. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): A Superb Issue • essay by Frank Thurston Torbett [as by T. Torbett] 511 · essay
  58. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): Hair-raising Stories • essay by M. H. Darter 512 · essay
  59. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): The February Stories • essay by John V. Baltadonis 512 · essay
  60. Letter (Weird Tales, April 1936): A Reader for Twelve Years • essay by Getty E. Cash 512 · essay

Contributors

Margaret Brundage
Cover artist
Se above
Illustrator

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

ConanPulpRobert E. HowardWeird Tales

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Howard Works source layer

Title
Weird Tales Volume 27 Number 4
Publisher
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date
April 1936
Source file
weirdtalesV27N4-April1936.html

REH World editorial layer

Title
Weird Tales 1936 April
Publisher
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date
April 1936
Source provenance

This record combines the preserved Howard Works bibliography with a reviewed REH World editorial overlay. Editorial values are displayed when present; Howard Works remains the source and fallback.