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Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs (animated and live- action ), video games, role-playing games, and other media. The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 for a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Publication history

Conan the Barbarian was created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales in 1932. For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s. In October 1931, he submitted the short story " People of the Dark " to Clayton Publications' new magazine, Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror ( June 1932). " People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first- person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations; Conan is a black -haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom. Some Howard scholars believe this Conan to be a forerunner of the more famous character.In February 1932, Howard vacationed at a border town on the lower Rio Grande. During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem "Cimmeria", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives. According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913) which inspired Howard to "coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan".Having digested these prior influences after he returned from his trip, Howard rewrote a rejected story, "By This Axe I Rule!" ( May 1929), replacing his existing character Kull of Atlantis with his new hero, and retitling it " The Phoenix on the Sword ". Howard also wrote "The Scarlet Citadel" and "The Frost - Giant 's Daughter ", inspired by the Greek myth of Daphne, and submitted both stories to Weird Tales magazine.