10 Facts About Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian
about every blade - exert fantasy hero from the twentieth hundred owes a lead of their horned helmet to Robert E. Howard’sConan the Barbarian . Set in the fictional Hyborian Age , after the devastation of Atlantis but before our oecumenical recorded history , Conan ’s stories have depicted him as everything from a cunning thief to a noble Martin Luther King and all type of villain in between . But beneath that origin - soaked sword and shield is a fictitious character that struck a brass with generations of fantasy fans , spawn adaptations in strip , video games , movies , video shows , and animated cartoon in the eight decades since he first appeared in the December 1932 consequence ofWeird Tales ....