![]() ![]() Sprague's wife) adapted it into this prose form. The screenplay was credited to John Milius and Oliver Stone, and de Camp and Carter (with uncredited but significant contributions from Catherine de Camp, L. ![]() A popular comics version followed, as did more novels and stories from other authors, and then, inevitably, this film. ![]() De Camp collected, edited, added to, and expanded Howard's originals for a series of hardbound volumes from Gnome Press in the 1950's, and then into a wildly popular twelve-volume chronological series from Lancer Books with the help of Lin Carter (and due to some covers by Frank Frazetta) in the 1960's and -70's. Howard who was at his best in pulp Weird Tales magazine in the 1930's. Conan, of course, was a swords & sorcery/heroic fantasy character created by Robert E. Normally one is wise to be wary of works that have been through too many hands, but this is a nice exception to the rule. This is a very good adaptation of an early version of the script of the first Conan film. ![]()
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