Cover image unavailableSword & Fantasy #9
Publication date: September 2008
Introduction
Features include a 6 page reprint of the Frank Frazetta comic strip "Diamonds & Pebbles" from HAPPY COMICS #33 (Sept. 1949) in black and white (a version of this issue with the strip in full color is also available but at a higher price in a separate listing). An art folio by Howard Pyle. An original 9 page sword & sorcery comic strip by Ron Wilber "The Accursed Wizards Land." Articles on H.P. Lovecraft from 1950s fanzines. "On Science Fiction And The Weird" by Seabury Quinn from the fanzine THE TALISMAN (Summer, 1950), a 5 page Roy Krenkel folio and more.
Notes
Edited by James Van Hise
Side stapled single sheets, wraps.
Front cover illustration from a foreign paperback cover.
The reviews beginning on p. 46 appear under the title "The Bookworm Speaks" and are attributed to Return to Wonder #8, but that is not the correct issue.
"The Origins of Conan: The First Comic" was translated by Nino Lucio.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Quarto (8.5" x 11" magazine)
- Publication date
- September 2008
- Pages
- 86
- Publisher / imprint
- James Van Hise
- Cover art
- Chris Achilleos
- Illustrations
- See above
- Media details
- Fanzine
38 contents entries
- Sword & Fantasy #9 • interior artwork by Howard Pyle ifc · artwork
- Sword & Fantasy #9 • interior artwork by Mahlon Fawcett ibc · artwork
- Sword & Fantasy #9 (logo) • (2005) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum (variant of Sword & Fantasy #2) 1 · artwork
- Editorial (Sword & Fantasy #9) • interior artwork by James Van Hise 2 · artwork
- Sword & Fantasy #9 • interior artwork by Eduardo Barreto 3 · artwork
- Twenty Drawings by Howard Pyle • interior artwork by Howard Pyle 4 · artwork
- Happy Fairy Tales: "Diamonds and Pebbles" • (1949) • interior artwork by Frank Frazetta 19 · artwork
- H.P. Lovecraft: The Gods • (1957) • essay by Lin Carter 25 · essay
- H. P. Lovecraft: The Gods • interior artwork by uncredited 27 · artwork
- H. P. Lovecraft: The Gods • interior artwork by Bruce D. Patterson 33 · artwork
- Random Notes on H. P. Lovecraft • (1953) • essay by T. G. L. Cockcroft 38 · essay
- Random Notes on H. P. Lovecraft • interior artwork by uncredited 38 · artwork
- Review: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance • (1970) • review by Richard Grose 46 · review
- Review: The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance • (1970) • review by Richard Grose 46 · review
- Review: Jirel of Joiry by C. L. Moore • (1970) • review by Richard Grose 47 · review
- The Bookworm Speaks • interior artwork by James Cawthorn 48 · artwork
- Review: The Dark Man and Others by Robert E. Howard • (1969) • review by Wayne Bourgeois 49 · review
- Review: The Robert E. Howard Fantasy Biblio by Robert Weinberg • (1969) • review by Steve Riley 50 · review
- The Accursed Wizard's Land • interior artwork by Ron Wilber 51 · artwork
- On Science Fiction and the Weird • (1950) • essay by Seabury Quinn 62 · essay
- Sword & Fantasy #9 • interior artwork by James Cawthorn 66 · artwork
- Sword & Fantasy #9 [2] • interior artwork by James Cawthorn 67 · artwork
- Review: Red Shadows by Robert E. Howard • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 67 · review
- Review: Brak the Barbarian by John Jakes • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 67 · review
- Review: The Conan Reader by L. Sprague de Camp • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 67 · review
- Review: The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 68 · review
- Review: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 68 · review
- Review: Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 68 · review
- Sword & Fantasy #9 [3] • interior artwork by James Cawthorn 69 · artwork
- Review: The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 69 · review
- Review: Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 69 · review
- Review: Etchings in Ivory by Robert E. Howard • (1968) • review by Richard Brisson 69 · review
- The First Conan Comic Book • essay by Daniel Navarro 70 · essay
- The First Conan Comic Book • interior artwork by uncredited 70 · artwork
- The Origins of Conan: The First Comic • essay by Manuel Barrero 72 · essay
- The Origins of Conan: The First Comic • interior artwork by uncredited 72 · artwork
- A Roy G. Krenkel Folio • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel 78 · artwork
- Sword & Fantasy #9 • interior artwork by Don Newton bc · artwork
Contributors
- Chris Achilleos
- Cover artist
- See 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.
Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Sword & Fantasy #9
- Publisher
- James Van Hise
- Date
- September 2008