This in-depth tour through the history of fantasy's greatest hero covers everything from the earliest prose pieces of Robert E. Howard, to Frazetta's explosive artwork, through the Schwarzenegger film, and into the rebirth of the character at Dark Horse Comics. Comics historian Paul M. Sammon delivers an engrossing visual history!

* A visual history of the many incarnations of Conan the Barbarian!

“Conan, like Chingachgook and Umslopogaas, is an ideal rather than a reality. A symbol of a certain kind of perfection and all the more enduring as a result.”

—From the foreword by Michael Moorcock