The Saga Of Solomon Kane [Paperback]

Robert E. Howard (Author), Roy Thomas (Author), Don Glut (Author), Others (Author, Artist), David Wenzel (Author), Howard Chaykin (Author), Alan Weiss (Author), Steve Carr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 18, 2009

From his pulp-fiction origins in Weird Tales to his latest Dark Horse incarnation, Robert E. Howard's sixteenth-century Puritan adventurer has captured the imaginations of readers for decades. Now all of the Savage Sword of Conan short stories from the 1970s are collected for the first time: equal parts comics adaptations of Howard's formative tales and inspired new chapters from venerable scribes Roy Thomas (Conan the Barbarian) and Don Glut (Kull the Destroyer)! Follow along Kane's restless travels with pistol and rapier as he is compelled to be a weapon of God, ridding the world of evil wherever it may be found - from the jungles of Africa to the high seas, and whether cannibal, demon, vampire, or pirate!

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (August 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595823174
• ISBN-13: 978-1595823175
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #698,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great find of some great stories, August 22, 2009

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Martin - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Saga Of Solomon Kane (Paperback)

These collected stories are a great deal for the price! You get stories that are hard to find any where else today. And art by greats like Neal Adams,John Buscema,Howard Chaykin and my personal favorite Rudy Nebres. Dark Horse has done a fine job in orginising and presenting these stories.They were all originaly in B&W to start with so you still get all the original impact. Bottom line these are great stories from a great time in comics.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kane, January 23, 2010

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This review is from: The Saga Of Solomon Kane (Paperback)

Excellent adventure in Puritan times.Superb artwork and lots of it. Hard to put down adventure with some occasional partial nudity. A good read. Highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uncompromising avenger, June 26, 2010

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derekprior "Indie Fantasy Review" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Saga Of Solomon Kane (Paperback)

Solomon Kane is one of those iconic characters who transcends the page, like Elric of Melnibone, Druss the Legend and R.E. Howard's other great creation, Conan.

Kane stories are heaped with atmosphere, testimony to Howard's own bleak world view and the circles in which he moved. Fundamentalist morality is pitted against Lovecraftian evil in a relentless series of dualistic conflict.

I first encountered Kane in the pages of "Dracula Lives!" over thirty years ago. Whilst I didn't come across him again until this year, he remained a buried influence, an unconscious inspiration for my own character, Deacon Shader.

Kane is harder than Shader, much more uncompromising. He is an avenger who will cross the oceans to mete our justice. There are elements of Kane in David Gemmell's Jerusalem Man too.

The artwork in this collection is stunning - a return to the beauty of what is for me the golden age of comic books (before computers!) The stories are simple tales of vengeance and horror but perfectly convey the conflicted nature of Kane, a Puritan with wanderlust and a need for danger. It's always great fun to see him breaking away from the embrace of a typically Howardian temptress and cursing her as a succubus.