Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL "Bride of the Oculist!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...it's the story of a lovely lady who cheated on her husband (who had developed a lethal pathogen).

One of her many lovers (and the only one who truly loved her) tried to find her...and did so, finding her slain by her husband's disease (which he's also contracted)!

Scripted by Christopher Priest (as "James C Owlsey"), and illustrated by Ernie Chan/Chua (with an assist on layouts by John Buscema), this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Annual #11 (1987) is easily the most "adult" Conan color comic adventure ever!

Note: Marvel didn't introduce their ratings labels (All Ages/Mature/etc) until 2001.

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL "Bride of the Oculist!" Part 2

When Last We Saw Our Barbarian...

Richel, an oculist relates the tale of Narada (his unfaithful wife), Tolkan (her current lover), Conan, and the malady he, Richel, created that binds them all together...

Hard to believe, but this issue was approved by the Comics Code Authority!

Guess they considered Hyborian Era STDs to be "fantasy"...

Scripted by Christopher Priest (as "James C Owlsey"), and illustrated by Ernie Chan/Chua (with an assist on layouts by John Buscema), this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Annual #11 (1987) is easily the most "adult" Conan color comic adventure ever!
Note: Marvel didn't introduce their ratings labels (All Ages/Mature/etc) until 2001.

Payback's a bitch as you'll see when this story concludes...

...Next Wednesday!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL "Bride of the Oculist!" Part 1

Conan meets Covid...

...sort of!

Well, he does deal with disease, eventually...

Scripted by Christopher Priest (as "James C Owlsey"), and illustrated by Ernie Chan/Chua (with an assist on layouts by John Buscema), this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian Annual #11 (1987) does deal with disease, as shown by the disfigured Habar shown above.

But most of that material is later in the tale...which you'll see...
...Next Wednesday!
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It's Almost Thanksgiving! Bring on the Turkeys!

This November, some of the RetroBlogs are presenting what could charitably be called...turkeys.

(Actually, this story may well qualify for one of the entries, but right now it's a kool graphic...)

We're talking the worst of the worst.

Stories and/or art that are so awful, so inane, they're not even shown on the 'Net, just talked-about in whispers!

In fact they're so bad they've never been reprinted, and probably never will be!

Confirmed so far are...

 The comic adaptation of the awful movie Conan the Destroyer in Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!

(We were gonna run the comic book adaptation of Howard the Duck, but even we have our limits!)

In Hero Histories you'll see the three-part tale that introduced the Blackhawks as super-heroes working for a spy organization!

BTW, they're from the same era as the Dracula and Frankenstein superhero incarnations we just ran!

And, Marvel's disco-themed follow-up to the success of Dazzler written by Stan (the Man) Lee himself...Night Cat, in Heroines!

Bring the sweet potatoes and biscuits 'cause, beginning this week, we have the turkeys!