100 pages - July 2005
Diamond’s “Best Publication About Comics” lets “Gods
and Warriors” muscle their way into BACK ISSUE #11!
And who better to headline the ish than CONAN? ROY THOMAS, KURT BUSIEK, and JOE
JUSKO spill their guts in a meaty retrospective of Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian
series, with tons of rare and classic art by JOHN BUSCEMA, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH,
NEAL ADAMS, Jusko, and others. SERGIO ARAGONÉS and MARK EVANIER chew the
fat about GROO THE WANDERER in a “Pro2Pro” interview, and Heavy Metal
artist extraordinaire ARTHUR SUYDAM shares his insights and illustrations in
an exclusive interview. Plus: “The Greatest Stories Never Told” investigates
DC’s never-published KING ARTHUR series by GERRY CONWAY and NESTOR REDONDO,
unveiling for the first time several of Redondo’s glorious pages from the
series; a Gods and Warriors “Rough Stuff” art gallery by JACK KIRBY,
MOEBIUS, GEORGE PÉREZ, JOSÉ LUIS GARCIA-LOPEZ, DON HECK, and others;
the scoop on the secret artist who contributed to the 1976 clash of titans SUPERMAN
VS. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN; and a spotlight on BRIAN BOLLAND’s covers for
1980s British Annuals! With a striking painted CONAN cover by JOE JUSKO, recreating
JOHN BUSCEMA’s frontispiece to Savage Sword of Conan #17!
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PLEASE NOTE: The quotes from Barry Windsor-Smith that appeared in Tom
Stewart’s “Conan the Long-Running” article were from previously
printed sources and were not commissioned specifically for this
article. The caption to the image appearing on page 53 was erroneous:
This portfolio piece, obtained from Heritage Comics, was Barry
Windsor-Smith’s 1974 “The Ram and the Peacock” print, depicting a
barbarian that is not Conan, and is © 2005 The Gorblimey Press.
Additionally, page 49’s early Conan illo and Ragnarok
3 cover drawing are © 2005 Barry Windsor-Smith, as is the
Young Miracleman pencil artwork on page 24 (in our “Rough Stuff”
feature). BACK ISSUE apologizes to Mr. Windsor-Smith
and to our readers for the errors.
