Sword and Sorcery Comics

Over the last few months, I’ve really landed towards sword and sorcery comics. Titles like Conan sap sort of Conan and red. Sonja are some of my favorites this year. This article will simply track some upcoming titles worth exploring.

2024

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Archive

The following list is from G.W. Thomas' excellent blog, Dark Worlds Quarterly.  https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/sword-sorcery-comics/null

1930s

• (1938) Fantasy Isle
• (1938) Konar the Barbarian
• (1939) The Golden Knight

1940s

• (1940) The Green Falcon
• (1940) Galahad
• (1941) Danny in Wonderland
• (1941) Dicky in the Magic Forest
• (1941) Half a Century of Robin Hood Comics
• (1942) Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tale Parade
• (1942) Four Color Comics’ Fairy Tale Parade
• (1942) Jimmy Jupiter and the Land of Nowhere
• (1942) Sir Butch and the Land of Waydaheckout
• (1943) “The Return of Robin Hood” in Popular Comics #79-84 
• (1943) Classic Illustrated: The Arabian Nights - retold four classic tales from Persian and Arab folklore including Sinbad the Sailor. The art by Lillian Chesney is unusual and better than most Gilberton comics.
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• (1945) Fantastic Ferdy
• (1947) Jimminy and the Magic Book
• (1949) Early Sword & Sorcery Comic: Malu the Slave Girl

1950s

• (1950) Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian
• (1950) The Son of Sinbad
• (1950) Sword & Sorcery Comic: Alpha the Slave Pirate
• (1952) Quasi Sword & Sorcery Comic – November 1952
• (1954) Quasi Sword & Sorcery Comic – March 1954
• (1954) Quasi Sword & Sorcery Comic – September 1954
• (1955) The Golden Gladiator
• (1955) British Fantasy Comics
• (1955) The Journeys of the Viking Prince
• (1958) Seven Comics of Sinbad

1960s

• (1963) Boris Karloff Tale of Heroic Fantasy
• (1963) Tales of Asgard: Sword & Sorcery Superheroes
• (1963) Wrath of the Gods by Willie Patterson
• (1964) Post-Apocalyptic Heroes: Samson and Hercules
• (1965-69) Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 1
• (1966) The Broken Sword
• (1966) Clawfang the Barbarian
• (1966) Sword & Sorcery in Star-Studded Comics
• (1968) DC Flirts with Sword & Sorcery: Nightmaster
• (1969) More Sword & Sorcery Comics at DC

1970s

• (1970) The Lost Cities of Conan
• Sword & Planet Comics of the 1970s
• Sword & Sorcery at DC: The 1970s
• (1970) Bronze Age Dragons: 1970s
• (1970) DC Flirts with Sword & Sorcery: Horror Anthologies
• (1970) Garner F. Fox’s Warren Sword & Sorcery
• (1970) Beowulf Comics: Franco Capriloi
• (1970) Detour: The Sword & Sorcery of Wonder Woman
• (1970) Sword & Sorcery at Skywald
• (1973) Tales of Atlantis: Underwater Sword & Sorcery
• (1970) Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 2 - 9
• (1971) Marvel Treasury: Conan
• (1971) The Sword of Dragonus
• (1971) Victor de la Fuente’s Haxtur
• (1971) Robert E. Howard’s James Allison in Comics
• (1972) Fafhrd & Gray Mouser Comics
• (1973) Gil Kane Conan Covers
• (1973) The Thing in the Crypt
• (1973) Creatures on the Loose #22 - #29
• (1973) The Sword of Charlton
• (1974) Atlas’s Barbarians of Vengeance
• (1974) The Dark Mirror of Klarn – Part 1
• (1974) More Sword & Sorcery Comics at DC II
• (1974) Hof Stuf’: Independent Sword & Sorcery Comics
• (1974) The Unspeakable Shrine 1
• (1975) The Unspeakable Shrine 2
• (1975) Sword& Sorcery by Phillippe Druillet
• (1975) A Sword & Sorcery Comic Mystery
• (1975) Stalker #1 - #4
• (1975) Claw the Unconquered Covers
• (1976) Sword & Sorcery Superheroes II: Hulk vs. Kronak
• (1976) Wally Wood’s King of the Ring
• (1976) Solomon Kane: The Weird Tales Adaptations
• (1978) The Many Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
• (1978) The End of a Beautiful Friendship: Creators Rights
• (1978) Seven More Voyages of Sinbad
• (1979) Sword & Sorcery in The Rook

1980s

• (1980) Favorite Sword & Sorcery From Epic Illustrated
• (1980) Andrew J. Offutt’s Conan Trilogy
• (1980) Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 10 - 12
• (1981) Chane of the Golden Hair
• (1981) John Buscema’s Bront
• (1981) Sword & Sorcery: Archie Style
• (1981) Forgotten Comics: Dragonsword
• (1981) Robert E. Howard’s Bran Mak Morn in Comics
• (1982) American Heroic Fantasy Graphic Novels
• (1982) Warrior: Tales of Sword & Sorcery
• (1985) Blackthorne’s 3D Sword & Sorcery
• (1987) Galería de personajes fantásticos

1990s

• (1991) Moanin’ the Barbarian
• (1998) Second-Hand Sword & Sorcery: Avalon’s Barbarians
• Conan in Black & White 1: Enrique Alcatena
• Conan in Black & White 2: Alex Nino
• Conan in Black & White 3: Rafael Kayanan

2010s

• (2013) Helheim
• (2014) Groo vs. Conan
• (2015) Klaus
• (2017) Wonder Woman/Conan: Sword & Sorcery Heroes

Other

• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Chris Achilleos
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Frank Thorne
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Jess Jodloman
• Artist of Sword & Sorcery: George Barr
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Neal Adams
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Walt Simonson
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Alfred Alcala
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Wendy Pini
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ricardo Villamonte
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Billy Graham
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Frank Brunner
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Rich Buckler
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Joe Staton
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ken Barr
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Tom Sutton
• Artist of Sword & Sorcery: Mike Ploog
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Vicente Alcazar
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ernie Chan
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Gray Morrow
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Berni Wrightson
• Artist of Sword & sorcery: Steve Ditko
• Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Earl Norem
• Artist of Sword &Sorcery: Jaime Brocal Remohi
• The Barbarian and the Line
• Bill Parente and Sword & Sorcery
• Buddy Saunders and Sword & Sorcery
• Conan Comic Parodies
• Dead and Unleashed
• Death Ten Feet Tall: Conan vs. the Hulking Beast
• Denny O’Neil: Sword & Sorcery Champion
• An Elric of Melnibone Gallery
• End of a Warren Era: Bill DuBay
• Fantasy Comics You Might Not Know
• Four Color Dragons
• Giant Spiders in Heroic Fantasy Comics
• Gods of the North
• Heroic Fantasy Movie Comics
• The Inkers of John Buscema
• The Land of Harvey
• More Golden Age Comics for Sword & Sorcery Fans
• Nick Cuti and Sword & Sorcery
• One-Shot Marvel Sword & Sorcery Adventures
• Siegfried and the Dragon
• Some Odd Bronze Age Sword & Sorcery Comics
• Superheroes Go Sword & Sorcery
• Sword & Sorcery Comic Strips
• Sword & Sorcery Goes North
• Sword & Sorcery Hall of Fame: Archie Goodwin
• Swords vs. Tentacles
• Tolkien Vs Howard Comics
• Vikings on a Rampage I
• Vikings on a Rampage II
• Weird Warriors
• Wraith on Wings