The Hyborian Page

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A month of landmarks, this hot month of July 1971:

First: It's one year to the day since Conan the Barbarian #1 burst like a primeval bombshell upon comics fandom - and immediately laid to rest the prediction made by a top exec of our major competitor (voiced to associated editor Roy Thomas) that it would swiftly bomb out. What's more, we've celebrated our fabulous first anniversary by enlarging Conan to a gigantic double-size magazine - still another milestone in the breif but happy life of the first truly successful sword-an-sorcery mag in comics history! Even if - Crom forbid - Conan were to fold its Hyborian tents tomorrow, this past year of mostly-monthly publication would make it a rarity indeed!

Second: It marks the inclusion of Kull the Conqueror as an extra feature slated to appear in most (though not necessarily all) future issues of Conan. We're sorry to see the passing of Kull's own short-lived mag at a time when we haven't the foggiest notion of whether it soared or or swan-dived in the sales arena, but we deemed it wisest to put all our sword-and-sorcery eggs in one basket - and watch that basket!

... In Conan #11 you'll definetly be treated to the first 30-pages-plus Conan story, an adaptation of Robert E. Howard's The Rogues in the House.