A Final Word
I was nineteen years old when Barry Smith’s illustrated version of Red Nails hit the stands in 1973 . . . To backtrack a little, I had been a hardcore comics fan for ten years and had become pretty jaded by this point in time. It was hard for me to become overly excited about any comic book that was currently being published, and rightly so. After all, I had witnessed the birth of Marvel Comics with Jack “King” Kirby at the helm, and experienced the growing explosion of fantastic storytelling and artwork in the 1960s by other such greats as Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, Gil Kane, Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta—and the list could go on! Now for me, just a few years later, the comic world had lost a little of its magic.

But in 1972 I experienced a strange, almostforgotten sensation when I read Conan the Barbarian #19, “Hawks from the Sea.” I had been reading the comic book Conan since the first issue and enjoyed the series a lot; A Final Word however, the artwork in the earlier books was only a foreshadowing of the heights Barry was later to achieve.

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