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"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."

— Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, 1932

Dave Simons probably did more credited work on Conan than anything else during his time at Marvel in the '70s and '80s. "There was a lot of Conan stuff," says Dave, "Once I got into doing the Conan stuff it was pretty fun for me because, hey, it’s Conan! I even co-wrote a Savage Sword of Conan. I started to see how my pencils would look inked by someone else. I penciled King Conan and Geoff Isherwood inked it. I did some work on Red Sonja and Vinnie Colletta inked me on that." Dave managed to procude a large number of pin-ups and illustrations for the Savage Sword Of Conan magazine, in various media, ranging from pencils, through to experiments in inking and ink wash. "I used to do a lot of pin-up pieces for Savage Sword of Conan<" remembers Dave. "Back in the 80s, whenever I was short on cash, I'd work up a few sketches and take them to Larry Hama for approval. Then I could just finish them up and get paid."

Dave wasn't limited to Conan though. He also managed to contribute to the Conan mythos by working on both Kull and Red Sonja. "I’m also the person who designed the infamous neck-tie costume for Red Sonja," recalls Dave. "It was never drawn the way I intended it because Mary Wilshire didn’t understand that it was leather and not fur on the top, and that it was a sash, it was supposed to be more like a pirate thing. At the time Adam Ant was very big so I was trying to get those pirate elements in there, and it never looked the way I intended it to look."

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #167, pages 25; 27 & 29

Pencils by JOHN BUSCEMA, inks by DAVE SIMONS

DAVE SIMONS CONAN CHECK-LIST

Conan of the Isles (Graphic Novel)

Issue #nn: Inks (John Buscema pencils)

Conan the Barbarian

Issue #167: Inks (John Buscema pencils)

Issue #186: Inks (Michael Docherty pencils)

Conan Saga

Issue #20: Pin-up

Issue #25: Cover Art Inks (Howard Chaykin pencils); Pin-up

The Handbook of the Conan Universe

Issue #1: Pencils

King Conan

Issue #20: Inks (Marc Silvestri pencils)

Issue #21: Inks (Marc Silvestri pencils)

Issue #24: Pencils

The Savage Sword of Conan

Issue #90: Pin-up

Issue #92: Inks (John Buscema pencils)

Issue #95: Inks (Ron Wilson pencils)

Issue #97: Pin-up

Issue #106: Pencils

Issue #112: Story/Plot/Pencils

Issue #113: Pin-up

Issue #127: Pin-up

Issue #131: Pencils

Issue #132: Pin-up

Issue #154 (Terry Tidwell pencils)

Issue #155: Pin-up

Issue #156: Pin-up

Issue #157: Pin-up

Issue #159 (Michael Docherty pencils)

Issue #161: Pin-up

Issue #164: Pin-up

Issue #169: Story/Plot/Pencils

Issue #171: Pin-up

Issue #172: Pin-up

Issue #175: Pin-up

Issue #194: Pin-up

Issue #196: Pin-up

Issue #200: Pin-up

Issue #201: (M.C. Wyman pencils)

Issue #213: Pencils

Savage Tales (Volume II)

Issue #1: Pin-up

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Red Sonja (Volume II)

Issue #2: Cover Art

Red Sonja (Volume III)

Issue #1: Cover Art and Interiors: Pencils

Red Sonja The Movie

Issue #2: Pin-up

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Kull the Conqueror (Volume III)

Issue #3: Cover Art Inks (Bob Budiansky pencils)

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