tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post6243690878023626522..comments2024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:00Comments on Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Fantasy isn't meant to be cosyLeo Hartashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14417174942647091006noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-81209674409922010222010-03-30T12:19:17.110+01:002010-03-30T12:19:17.110+01:00Yes, indeed, Peter. Conan was the first Marvel tit...Yes, indeed, Peter. Conan was the first Marvel title I actually subscribed to - something of a palaver, as it involved figuring out US postal orders with nice Mrs Pengelly at the local post office :-) And I was horrified to discover that Marvel posted the comics out folded in two. I mean, I'm not a mylar bag fanatic... but FOLDED IN TWO!? <br /><br />Anyway, I remember that #3 was the first issue I got. (I never was able to track down the first two, though later saw them in reprints.) I had an exam at school that day but all I could think about was getting home and having another read of that brilliant story. <br /><br />Conan immediately became my favourite comic, and my art master (Frank Brown, great guy) may have noticed that from that point my drawing took on that particularly Italianate style that Barry W-S had going (previously I'd been all Neal Adams and rangy). Mr Brown probably thought I'd been studying the Renaissance masters, not swords-n-sorcery comics!Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-72612414365045235122010-03-30T11:40:22.909+01:002010-03-30T11:40:22.909+01:00Reading your posts Dave, particularly this one fol...Reading your posts Dave, particularly this one following on from the previous mention of Bram Stokes and Dark They Were and Golden Eyed, has brought back into clear focus the serried ranks of all the above authors on the shelves of that amazing shop, and the artwork for a lot of those covers was similarly beguiling.<br /><br />D.T.W.A.G.E. was also the place where I picked up my first Conan comic otherwise unobtainable on these shores in 1970. Conan No. 3 "The Grim Grey God" with Barry Smith's fantastical artwork.<br /><br />There was quite a stack of them, somewhat ironic as Conan No. 3 is regarded now as something of a rarity because of distribution problems affecting that issue. Presumably it was also distribution problems that prevented issues 1 and 2 appearing anywhere in the U.K.<br /><br />Number 3 was the first here in the U.K. and Dark They Were was the venue to pick it up either there or via Dez Skinn's Fantasy Advertiser.<br /><br />Golden days ...Peter Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com