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Conan the Barbarian #8

Collection: Conan the Barbarian CGC 9.8 by Barry Windsor-Smith

This book contains the first Conan story that to my knowledge was published in Denmark, so this book has special value to me.

Furthermore the book contains a humorous remark by Windsor-Smith, when drawing a large number of coins he wrote "I must be mad to sit here drawing all these coins" (page 14). Since the back of this book is quite boring, I took the liberty to upload a photo of the drawing with this remark, marked with a red rectangle. Actually the photo was taken from an original and unread Conan the Barbarian #8 book from 1971. As you can see the message was hard to read due to the cheap paper and blurry printing, so only few ever noticed the message - therefore the message is often referred to as a "secret panel message". This classic remark makes Conan #8 quite special - and at 9.8 in pure white pages it currently does not get any better!

This book is a good example of Roy Thomas' and Barry Windsor-Smith's approach to the genre. Barry Windsor-Smith wrote in his book Opus 2:

"Although they were not unknown to us, Roy Thomas and I tried to avoid the excesses and clichés of the sword and sorcery/adventure genre. We mostly avoided monsters; instead I'd draw actual animals on a grand scale, like a giant dog or a reptile".

And this book exactly introduces a giant reptile illustrating the more restricted fantasy approach (one dare not write "realistic approach", so I will not do that :-) which I believe was indeed a wise choice (the giant bat in #6, the large snake in #7, the Bull God in #10 and the giant spider in #13 are other examples of this approach).

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Title:	Conan the Barbarian #8
Label Desc:	CGC - Universal (Blue) Default
Degree of Restoration:	Unrestored
Grade:	9.8
Pg Quality:	White
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Signatures:	None
For Sale:	0
Views:	833
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Posted:	12/7/2015
Assigned To Archive:	Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Issue 8; August 1971 view

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