COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Conan the Barbarian 5 Universal
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0790679005
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Owner:
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Rune
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
One of my first CGC books, today I probably would not have bought this book (it is extremely beautiful though, as you may be able to see on the picture, but I now stick to pure white pages). The story is also not among my favorites, but that is of course a matter of taste...
Furthermore the secret of this book is that this is really not Conan the Barbarian #5, but this is actually the true #3! In 2010 Roy Thomas made the following explanation:
"For issue #5 I made up a tale that used a Robert E. Howard name from a poem—Zukala-for a wizard—villain. It was a fair—to—middling story, and Barry drew it well, even if tigers weren’t his strong point and though Zukala wound up looking a bit like a refugee from a Steve Ditko Dr. Strange. I did have Barry redraw some things near the end of the story. He had a winged, flying demon suddenly become "tired"—at least that was the explanation he gave me—and fall to his death when pushed out a lower window. Possible, perhaps, but not satisfying. Also, we decided that Zukala‘s changeling daughter shouldn't die at the end. As it turned out, though. "Zukala‘s Daughter became Conan #5, not #3 [...] I realized it worked better from a chronological point of view to make 'Grim Grey God" #3, then to utilize "Tower of the Elephant," and to save "Zukala's Daughter" for #5. So that's what I did, and the publishing order of Conan #3 and #5 was thus reversed. And it shows, with the latter being a bit cruder than #3 and #4, more in line with what Barry had drawn in #2."
Excerpt from "The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives Volume 1" 2010 (the foreword by Roy Thomas).
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