In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E. Howard, the Texan creator of Conan the Barbarian.

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.

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.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

This was followed by Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Two ( 1934 ) ( 2004 ; published in the US as The Bloody Crown of Conan ) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three ( 1935 – 1936 ) ( 2005 ; published in the US as The Conquering Sword of Conan ).

Conan matured quickly as a youth and, by age fifteen, he was already a respected warrior who had participated in the destruction of the Aquilonian outpost of Venarium.

During his reign as king of Aquilonia, Conan was "... a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs.

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.

For example, at least one El Borak in which the protagonist infiltrates the City of the assassins was rewritten with Conan replacing Francis Xavier Gordon and a supernatural element added.

Completed by P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark, the chronology was later revised by Clark and L. Sprague de Camp in An Informal Biography of Conan the Cimmerian ( 1952 ).

* Robert Jordan chronology — A Conan Chronology by Robert Jordan ( 1987 ) was a new chronology written by Conan writer Robert Jordan that included all written Conan material up to that point.

* Dale Rippke chronology — The Darkstorm Conan Chronology ( 2003 ) was a completely revised and heavily researched chronology, radically repositioning a number of stories and including only those stories written or devised by Howard.

Conan Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena.

Arthur Wright was " obviously impressed " that Conan Doyle was involved, and gave his permission for publication, but he refused payment on the grounds that, if genuine, the images should not be " soiled " by money.

Conan Doyle was preoccupied with organising an imminent lecture tour of Australia, and in July 1920, sent Gardner to meet the Wright family.

Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

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.

Miyazaki's most famous television work was his direction of Future Boy Conan ( 1978 ), an adaptation of the children's novel The Incredible Tide by Alexander Key.

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.

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.

Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional detective created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Meanwhile, the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, is a spyhunter for Britain in the stories " The Adventure of the Second Stain " ( 1904 ), and " The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans " ( 1912 ).

Marvel Comics created their own version of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, when they introduced the Vanir Fafnir and his companion Blackrat to the Conan comics.

For example, many stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, originally created by Arthur Conan Doyle, have been written as pastiches since the author's time.

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.

* Cimmeria ( Conan ), a fictional country in the Conan the Barbarian stories created by Robert E. Howard

Professor James Moriarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In 1971, Tsathoggua's idol, which came to life and attacked Conan the Barbarian made a cameo in Conan The Buccaneer, book 6 of the Conan series, this novel written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter based on the Conan character created by Robert E. Howard.

* In the Past Doctor Adventures novel The Murder Game, the Second Doctor encounters weapon designers Neville and Dorothy Adler, using the name as an alias while posing as mystery writers ; the Doctor notes that Adler was the name of a character created by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, with another character suggesting that the name reflects Dorothy's ego.

* Professor Challenger, a fictional scientist and adventurer created by Arthur Conan Doyle

Paradox Entertainment owns rights to many intellectual properties, the most famous of which is Conan the Barbarian as created by pulp author Robert E. Howard and expanded upon by many other authors over the years.

* Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle

* Conan the Barbarian, a character created by Robert E. Howard, appearing in many different media

Smigel later became the first head writer at Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, where he created numerous successful comedy bits, including one where Smigel performed only the lips of public figures which were superimposed on photos of the actual people.

Working alongside Robert Smigel and Conan O ' Brien, he contributed to many sketches they created, but felt uncertain of his own writing and not very effective at the show.

221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In addition, brown-haired prototype versions of the He-Man action figure with a strong resemblance to the Conan character created by Robert E. Howard were produced and given away as promotion through an unknown mail-in order by mistake.