CGS Presents: Comics With or Without Pulp 6: Conan

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🗓️ 31 March 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis & the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was a time when a baby was born on the battlefield. Son to a blacksmith. This boy grew to be a great warrior, mercenary, thief, pirate, & eventually a king. (1:15:59)

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0:00.0	Comic Geekspeak Presents Comics With or Without Pulp. Episode 6. Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. All right, and welcome to the show.
0:30.9	This is Matt.
0:32.1	A guest hosting with me today.
0:34.0	It will be Newt Cox, also known as Double T, the forums. How's it going? Doing all right. How about
0:41.4	yourself? Doing pretty good. A little hot down here, but doing good.
0:46.5	All right. Hopefully, well, if you didn't figure out what we're doing, we're going to be talking
0:51.1	about Conan the Barbarian. That's right.
0:59.3	Best pulp character ever, but I'm biased on that thing.
1:04.0	Let's see, just quick rundown.
1:08.7	Conan was created by Robert E. Howard, 1932.
1:15.8	It looks as though he initially was kind of came from another character that he was working on.
1:16.9	Yes, he was.
1:17.2	Col?
1:25.2	Robert E. Howard had been writing this character called Call or King Cole, who was set in Atlantis before Atlanta sunk.
1:36.0	And he'd been published, he had a few stories published of that, and then one of them got turned down by weird tales, and he rewrote it as a Conan story, which is said after Atlantis sunk.
1:45.5	And it's interesting because if I believe there's Cole the Conqueror that's Kevin Sorbo, which was originally a Conan script.
1:46.3	Yes.
1:50.1	And then it became a call skip, or crawl.
1:56.6	So it's kind of interesting that there was a reversal, that it seems some type of a circle.
1:59.9	Now, granted, if you saw the movie, you don't want to see the movie.
2:01.0	Oh, the movie's horrible.
2:03.9	The only good thing about the movie is Tia Carrera's in it.
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