Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Barry Windsor

Barry Windsor-Smith Archives: Conan, Volume 1

Author: Roy Thomas
Illustrator: Barry Windsor-Smith,
Alternative title: Barry  Windsor -Smith archives  : Conan , volume 1
Conan , volume one
Conan  : the Barry Windsor -Smith archives  volume 1
Publisher information: Milwaukie, Or.: Dark Horse 2010.
Genre: Action and Adventure Comic Graphic novel Teen Fiction

Annotation: This action adventure comic  collection is more of the early marvel Conan comics and a great way to introduce the character Conan. This is first in a two volume series.
This comic features Conan as a masculine  strong man with heavy might .Although not a recent comic Barry Smith has done some justice to the illustration process after some mishaps in his early works. Barry Smith is credited for providing art for a number of Marvel works. He also assisted Roy Thomas in writing of this novel and was influenced by R.E Howard short stories and their characters.
Conan the Barbarian was ranked seventh on top 10 1970’s Marvels.
This reconstructed edition  is adorned with modern color and the original drawings touched up giving it a good clean outlook. Conan version is slimmer than bulky muscle man.
This comic was made to live action movie in 1982.

Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0cxNbz4yKc
barrywindsor-smith.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Thomas



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