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Monday, September 28, 2026

Conan the Movie by Neal Adams?

Here's an interesting piece of Conan art from the legendary Neal Adams that was published in Savage Sword of Conan #60. A few years before the release of the first Conan movie ( 1982) Adams was approached to provide some storyboard ideas for the proposed film. Sadly these never came to fruition due to the original producer losing the rights to Conan, other fustrations with Holywood followed which resulted in Adams losing interest in the project. As an exercise he provided a set of unofficial ( and unused) storyboard ideas on the opening sequence for what would become the Conan the Barbarian movie
Below the introduction to Neals storyboard idea by Mike W Barr.
Below the cover to SSOC #60 ( art by Earl Norem).

8 comments:

  1. I don''t think I've seen these before. I quite Savage Sword before it reached this issue. Conan's cute little helmet makes a surprise return. Thanks.

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  2. Hi Rip, I also stopped reading SSOC long before this issue but I picked this up and a couple of others in a sale for £1.50 each ( around 2 dollars). I wasn't going to post this but hoping more posts will sort out my blog list issues.

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  3. I don't think I had this issue as it was a US one. Do you know whether the UK version ever used the cover or the article?

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  4. Not sure Kid. I checked Mikes Amazing World of Comics and I couldn't see the cover but the 60th issue of the UK version featured the Conan the Barbarian film on the xover, so the Adams art may have been used there .

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    1. This post is now showing in my blog list, McS.

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  5. Thanks, I just saw that Kid haven't seen an update in nearly a month . I will change my own blog list to show latest articles and not just the blog name to see if that works now .

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  6. Apparently a King Conan film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is being planned. Arnie is pushing 80 so it'll be Conan The Pensioner.

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  7. Lol I wasn't aware of that Colin. It might be interesting.

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