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Conan the Barbarian ( also known as Conan the Cimmerian ) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films ( including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs ( cartoon and live-action ), video games, role-playing games and other media.
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In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E. Howard, the Texan creator of Conan the Barbarian.
Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.
The various stories of Conan the Barbarian occur in the fictional " Hyborian Age ", set after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of the known ancient civilizations.
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The modern sword and sorcery boom also began at this time with 1982's Conan the Barbarian.
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Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Kull the Conqueror, and Solomon Kane also have real life existences in the Marvel Universe.
The 1982 film Conan The Barbarian features bodybuilder Franco Columbu in a cameo as a blue-tattooed Pictish scout.
He is probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
Howard created Conan the Barbarian, in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, a character whose pop-culture impact has been compared to such icons as Tarzan, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
* Tales of Conan ( 1955 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-collection containing the first of de Camp's " posthumous collaborations " with Howard, marking the beginning of his successful promotion of Howard's " Conan the Barbarian " character
The genre has been defined, strongly, by the work of Robert E. Howard, particularly his tales of Conan the Barbarian and Kull of Atlantis, mostly in Weird Tales from 1932 and 1929 respectively.
During the 1980s, influenced by the success of the 1982 feature film Conan the Barbarian many cheaply made fantasy films were released that came to be derisively known as " Sword & Sorcery ".
Introduced as a minor character in a non-fantasy historical story by Robert E. Howard, " The Shadow of the Vulture ", Red Sonya of Rogatino would later inspire a fantasy heroine named Red Sonja, who first appeared in the comic book series Conan the Barbarian written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith.
After the acquisition of Boyana Film by Nu Image, several moderately successful productions have been shot in and around Sofia, such as The Contract, The Black Dahlia, Hitman and Conan the Barbarian.
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Many of Howard's original unedited Conan stories also form part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.
In the same work, Howard also described how the Cimmerians eventually moved south and east after the age of Conan ( presumably in the vicinity of the Black Sea, where the historical Cimmerians dwelt ).
A number of untitled synopses for Conan stories also exist.
The Gnome edition also issued the first Conan story written by an author other than Howard — the final volume published, which is by Björn Nyberg and revised by de Camp.
Conan Doyle also showed the photographs to the physicist and pioneering psychical researcher Sir Oliver Lodge, who believed the photographs to be fake.
The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Émile Gaboriau, and Arthur Conan Doyle were perhaps also influenced by Zadig.
" Jay Leno and Conan O ' Brien also return to the air on NBC, and Jon Stewart would return to the air on Comedy Central three nights later.
In 1066, his son Conan II, Duke of Brittany also died of unexplained causes.
He was also known for his sword and sorcery, a fantasy genre he was instrumental in reviving through his editorial work on and continuation of Robert E. Howard's " Conan " cycle.
Arthur Conan Doyle also criticised the ' rubber regime ' in his 1908 work The Crime of the Congo, written to aid the work of the Congo Reform Association.
Ophir is also a kingdom in Robert Howard's Conan the Barbarian series of stories ; see Hyborian Age for more information.
The success of the show also saw a number of similar ancient-set series being commissioned, such as The Adventures of Sinbad, Conan the Adventurer, The New Adventures of Robin Hood, BeastMaster, Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, and Jack of All Trades.
Iron Age archaeology is also well represented, for example in the souterrain nearby Warddykes cemetery and at West Grange of Conan, as well as the better known examples at Carlungie and Ardestie.
The name " Turan " also appears in the fictional geography of the Conan the Barbarian stories.
Mako was also considered for the role of Mr. Miyagi, but was not available due to prior commitments to film Conan the Destroyer, though he would eventually play a similar role in the film Sidekicks.
It also cites Arthur Conan Doyle's usage in 1889 in Micah Clarke xxx.
The character Heiji Hattori also mentioned that he prefers Ellery Queen to Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 12.
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The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.
In 1090 he reportedly threw a treacherous burgher named Conan Pilatus from the tower of Rouen ; the tower was known from then on as " Conan's Leap.
With Conan and his other heroes, Howard created the genre now known as sword and sorcery, spawning a substantial number of imitators and giving him an influence in the fantasy field rivaled by few authors.
In the process, King Solomon's Mines created a new genre, known as the " Lost World ", which would inspire Edgar Rice Burroughs ' The Land That Time Forgot, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former school, Stonyhurst College, as inspiration for details of the Holmes series ; among his contemporaries at the school were two boys named Moriarty.
* John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, fictional sidekick and biographer of detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories
The Forresters Hall on Westow Street was known as the Welcome Hall ( or just Welcome ) in those days and it was in that hall in May 1892 that Arthur Conan Doyle was elected president of the society.
It is best known for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) titles Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and its The Longest Journey series of adventure games.
Later, near the release of the Lost Eden expansion, Byom moved on to the Age of Conan team, and was succeeded as Game Director by Craig Morrison, also known as " Silirrion ".
Drew Barrymore has been known to host " prom parties " on at least two occasions, having once stated in an interview with Conan O ' Brien in the late 1990s that she threw one for herself one time because she had always wanted a prom, but didn't get the chance, having not finished high school.
In the dynastic struggle between Stephen of England, also known as Stephen of Blois, and the dispossessed Empress Matilda, Conan III allied himself with King Stephen.
It is also rumoured to have been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have stayed at nearby Hergest Hall shortly before he wrote the novel.
They are best known for their Doctor Who line ; other properties include the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from 2000 AD, Dark Shadows, Sapphire & Steel, Stargate, Blake's 7 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character.
The town and the falls are known worldwide as the setting for a fictional event: it is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, fights to the death with his archnemesis, Professor Moriarty, at the end of The Final Problem.
Professor Challenger ( seated ) as illustrated by Harry Rountree in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story " The Poison Belt " in Strand Magazine. George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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