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| The Savage Sword of Conan, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Author: Roy Thomas
Creators: Barry Windsor-smith, John Buscema
Publisher: Dark Horse
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
Buy Used: $8.50
You Save: $9.45 (53%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 25542
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 542
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1593078382
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781593078386
ASIN: 1593078382
Publication Date: January 16, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Never Read. Cover is slightly damaged due to storage. b987
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great reprint October 24, 2008
I'm very happy with Darkhorse's reprints of the Savage Sword of Conan magazines. The quality is excellent and they are collected in the order they were originally printed. The wonderful stories and terrific artwork are still as timeless as they were back in the early 70's.
 Great book in small doses October 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Basically, Savage Sword of Conan is a great read, as long as you only read one or two stories, put the book down, go do something else for two weeks, come back, and read a couple more.
Don't get me wrong, most of the stories are downright fantastic! I'm particularly fond of the Barry Windsor Smith stuff at the begining, especially "Red Nails" which is an incredibly good read with excellent visual storytelling.
But the problem is all the stories are out of order chronologically, and they basically repeat the same patterns: Conan meets hot chick (usually a different one every time) who doesn't like Conan at first, fights some monsters or warriors or wizard bent on destruction, hot chick is captured, Conan defeats evil and saves hot chick, hot chick falls head over heels for our beefy warlord, and like James Bond, the story closes with them about to do the nasty. Oh, and there's an occassional magical relic.
Therefore, the stories can get very formulatic and its difficult to get excited from one story to the next if you read a lot of them at once. There is barely any character development with Conan, and with no continuing storylines, there are no other characters to care about.
In closing, this book is very good in small spurts.
savage sword1 October 20, 2008
I recommend this volume highly. Fantastic art and story from many artist in top form. Buscema,Smith,Starlin,Kane are all featured.
Nice trip down memory lane October 4, 2008
Very glad they are doing this.. only complaint is that it's slightly shrunken making it difficult to see some of the detail. but still worth it
If you think you might want it, you need it October 2, 2008
Savage Sword volume one collects well over 500 pages of the beginning of the series. What makes this book different from any Marvel Essential is that these issues lose no quality, as they were meant to be black and white, and they old magazines aren't as easy to find as some of the Marvel superhero material. Really, something like a year's worth of perhaps Roy Thomas' greatest comic work (not to mention the art of masters like John Buscema, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Neal Adams)for less than $20 is a no-brainer to fans of Conan and the comic medium in general.
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