Conan: Returning to Marvel

[Triniking1234]

What else does Dark Horse publish?

A lot. Just check their solicits. It's not like Conan was carrying them anyway.

[Thor-Ul]

Unexpected. Just hope in the third number Marvel don't replace him with a black girl.

[JKtheMac]

Serious question, does anyone still read Conan? It has always felt like a remnant of a bygone era to me. Even the original prose stories are quite old-fashioned and have many of the problematic issues that many pulp era books share.

[Grim Ghost]

That's a shame. I think Dark Horse was a much better home for Conan and I don't have a lot of faith in Marvel to do something cool with the character at this point. The great days of Savage Sword of Conan are far in the past now.

[Punisher007]

I hope that they get the rights to Red Sonja as well.

[Charlie_1981]

I think that right now can be complicated to see a bunch of writers able to overcome Roy Thomas take on Conan from past runs.

[bigstupidjellyfish]

The exciting part of this is guessing who will take over the title. I think Simone, Cates, Ahmed, Aaron, Latour, and Hopeless would be good choices for writers. Stegman would be an interesting artist for Conan.

[Miles To Go]

I hope that they get the rights to Red Sonja as well.

If they do, expect yet another story where Mary Jane becomes her avatar

[Frontier]

If they do, expect yet another story where Mary Jane becomes her avatar

Maybe that'll be the first, true, 616 Mary Jane solo ?

[protege]

Dark Horse should partner with Universal and take their Dark Universe plans and establish them as comics.

Wolfman, Van Helsing, Dracula, The Creature, The Thing, Monster Squad, The Invisible Man, Jekyl and Hyde, The Mummy, The Monster (Frankenstien), etc.


Those would be awesome.

I might actually read those.

[Miles To Go]

Maybe that'll be the first, true, 616 Mary Jane solo ?

Iron Sonjarette

[GOLGO 13]

Serious question, does anyone still read Conan? It has always felt like a remnant of a bygone era to me. Even the original prose stories are quite old-fashioned and have many of the problematic issues that many pulp era books share.

Conan is one of those eternally cool IP that will live forever. Looking forward.

[Digifiend]

I hope that they get the rights to Red Sonja as well.

Well, she's at Dynamite, so it's a separate rights package... why is that anyway, I thought Marvel created her?

[Dark-Flux]

Well, she's at Dynamite, so it's a separate rights package... why is that anyway, I thought Marvel created her?

Shes now owned by Red Sonja LLC.
Maybe Marvel sold the IP when they were going bankrupt in the 90s?

[Samurai32]

Well, she's at Dynamite, so it's a separate rights package... why is that anyway, I thought Marvel created her?

Marvel created the Hyborian age version but she was based on another Robert E. Howard character that was part of Howard’s non-Conan portfolio. Under the license Marvel had with the Howard estate, that made her the property of the Howard estate to do with as they wanted after Marvel lost the license.