Savage Sword of Conan #147 cover art by Earl Norem

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I love this old style fantasy art.
- Right? It has such a distinctive look.
- Frank Frazetta for more Conan inspired art
- Clyde Caldwell did a lot of the art for old DnD cRPGs and has a webbed sight still up.
  
  Wow, that's a cool site. Thanks for sharing.
Those Conan books were some spicy stuff for 12 year old me
- Lots of heaving bosoms?
  
  Armor covered with those little spikes and all.
- I've got the whole collection of stories to give to my little dude when he's old enough. I'm stoked
  
  BRMC is under the same Ballad health umbrella. 29 counties, and two hospitals just went down?
  
  Ugh. I'm like 15 books short of a complete SSOC run.
- The reason it was Conan magazine and not comic was so they could get away with violence and nudity in the world of the comics code authority
- looking at the illustration, i was thinking the same. These shouldn't have been accessible to 7 y.o. me
  
  I've "read" them all 🤷
  
  What's the fuss about a little gore and dismemberment and decapitation and torture anyway? Not like kids were told that some people of the female persuasion... * psst * have nipples too.
Hey, wait a minute. That's an axe, not a sword!
- Deception is the key to victory.
  
  Don't you mean deception is the sword to victory?
- All right. You win. I see you've played axeyswordy before.

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