Conan is a sword and sorcery barbarian character created by Robert E. Howard, and first published in the pulp magazines Weird Tales. The barbarian's adventures were later completed and extended by L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Björn Nyberg, Andrew J. Offutt, and many others.
The adventures of Conan (both adaptations and original stories) have been produced by various media companies, including Marvel Comics (1972-2000 and 2019-ongoing), who heavily expanded the Cimmerian's life and whose initial writer Roy Thomas was part of the writing teams for the 1980's Conan movies, and also wrote or edited adaptations of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Marvel Multiverse[]
In Earth-616, Conan follows virtually all (with a few known exceptions) steps from the known literary adventures written by Howard, but many more adventures have been told around him.
Conan has been a slave, a thief, a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, a hero, a general, and finally a king. He traveled across much of the Hyborian super continent from the Pictish lands in the west to Khitai in the east, from Hyperborea in the north to the Black Kingdoms in the south, and even discovering the Unknown Land (future Australia), and travelling to both coast of what would be known as the Americas.
During his travels, he encountered and survived black sorcerers, hellish cults, ancient gods, demons, and eldritch horror several times, and survived, among them including a living idol of Tsathoggua, Sahb Delanzar (the Great Goat God, the God of a Thousand Young, seemingly Shub-Niggurath), Yog-Sothoth (also known as Sodatha) and "Sodatha" (a monster believed to be Sodatha, and possibly an Old One itself), Azoth (the Outer God Azathoth), Thog the Ancient, and Satha the Old One (another name for Set). Travelling to the Frozen Land (South Pole), he ended up in the Mountains of Madness, in Leng, where he saw the frozen corpse of a star-shape-headed Old One, and seemingly even destroyed a Shoggoth.
Alternate realities[]
In one reality, Conan tried to oppose a cult of fishmen and disciples of Dagon and save human captives (including a wench he had seduced), but was himself captured by Dagon himself and turned into one of his mindless worshipers.[1]
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