Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9781593070250 ISBN: 159307025X Label: Dark Horse Manufacturer: Dark Horse Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: May 19, 2004 Publisher: Dark Horse Sales Rank: 500471 Studio: Dark Horse
Product DescriptionThe final collection of Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's seminal run on Conan the Barbarian. As with many collaborations between two extremely talented artists, Thomas and Windsor-Smith were producing the finest work of their careers just as their partnership on Conan came to an end. And like those great collaborations, we're left to wonder, 'what if they'd stayed together...' This compilation features two outstanding creators at the top of their game, working on a compelling character whose popularity has never faded. Also included is the first issue of acclaimed artist John Buscema's definitive run.
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Rating: - Hellos And Goodbyes
The fourth collection of Marvel Comics' "Conan The Barbarian" reproduces issues from 1973, and captures a major transition in the series.
Barry Windsor-Smith, penciller and lead artist of Conan since the series started, made his second and final exit after drawing the first two issues in this book. Chronicles 4 serves principally as a farewell to Windsor-Smith, and also an introduction to John Buscema, the artist who took over for Windsor-Smith and became most strongly associated with ... Read More
Rating: - Super Reader
An excellent reprint. The introduction of Red Sonja, even if toned down slightly due to comics code demands. Excellent example of Windsor-Smith's fine Conan work. Valeria is in here as well, definitely worth a look. The introduction is excellent, where Roy Thomas goes into detail into how they create the comics version of Sonja, as opposed to the version that appeared in the Howard story that they cribbed her from.
Rating: - Barry Windsor-Smith's final and greatest Conan stories
The one substantive complaint about these reprints of the "Conan the Barbarian" comic books that Dark Horse has been reprinting has been that the original covers drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith for Marvel Comics have been omitted. That omission is mitigated somewhat by Volume 4 of "The Chronicles of Conan," which has the splash page from "Red Nails" as the cover. I have a strong affection for this particular piece of Windsor-Smith art because my college debate partner took the original black & white ... Read More
Rating: - don't buy this book ???
I have to begin that I was a casual Conan reader as I was growing up . I had the conan tresurary editon from MarvelComic's 1975 that had one of my most favorite comic stories Red Nails written by Roy Thomas and penciled and inked by Barry Windsor Smith , which just caught my imagination and will always be what Conan is to me. That out of the way I have to say don't buy this book unless you have the cash to buy them all because after you see the beautiful job Dark Horse did reproducing thes book you'll ... Read More
Rating: - Smith's artwork disappears behind digital colorization
The main subject of my review is the impact of the heavy handed colorization on Barry Smith's artwork. I purchased the first four volumes of these Dark Horse reprints and I've never been happy with the color treatment imposed on Smith's art. I guess that I kept hoping that some how, some way Dark Horse might come to their senses and as Smith's drawing became more detailed they'd apply the color more appropriately. They did the opposite in volume four which reprints issues 23 through 26 of CONAN THE BARBARIAN ... Read More
- Barry Windsor-Smith's final and greatest Conan stories
- Smith's artwork disappears behind digital colorization
