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Jim Pagliaro's avatar

I loved Conan growing up. I remember having the first 20 issues. Even met many Marvel alumni at Comic conventions in San Francisco in the late 70’s early 80’s like Len Wein, Irv Watanabe and maybe Barry Smith.

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Tony Lazarus's avatar

Very impressed, and very jealous! The following issue (#25, the first of the John Buscema run) was my intro to Conan, and indeed to sword and sorcery comics in general, very different to the superheroes. I exchanged a few words with Roy Thomas at a con in Bristol a few years ago, seemed like a nice fella.

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Jim Pagliaro's avatar

I was a teenager and I don’t have any comics from then. So sad they were real works of art.

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Tony Lazarus's avatar

I have very very few left from that era after many house moves. Luckily there are collected editions and now Marvel Unlimited (although no Conan on there just yet).

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Jim Pagliaro's avatar

Sold most of my best years ago. The others are scattered to the winds…

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Tony Lazarus's avatar

Same here but I had a look in the comic boxes that remain and was surprised to find I still have about a thousand comics, when I could have sworn I got rid of most of them!

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Jim Pagliaro's avatar

Nice. Keep them.

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