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Before the Icon: Robert E. Howard’s Kull of Atlantis
blogging the past few days down robert e. howard & david gemmell has gotten the old sword & sorcery juices flowing, so i trifle i’d post nearly another only of robert e. howard’s s & s creations, this being kull of atlantis. there are a quantity of links between kull and howard’s more famous creation of conan. both of them made their basic appearances in odd tales. like conan, kull has subsequently appeared in a number of other mediums, such as movies, comics, b&w illustrated magazines, and figurines. both of them are also barbarians with adventurous backgrounds. in kull’s case, he was a slave, pirate, ban, and gladiator in the past he followed the path of conan and became the general of the most vigorous nation in the world (in kull’s time underscore this would be valusia). and like conan, kull ultimately led the lap that allowed him to ascend to the throne. but without question, the most important connection between these two characters is that without kull of atlantis there never would’ve been the icon known as conan the barbarian.
The character of Kull preceded Conan in print by slightly over three years. Kull first appeared in the August 1929 issue of Weird Tales, in the story “The Shadow Kingdom.” There would only be one other Kull story published in Howard’s lifetime, this being ”The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune,” which appeared in the September 1929 issue of the same magazine. Kull did appear in another story before Howard committed suicide, called “Kings of the Night,” but this story is actually about another of Howard’s primitive heroes, Bran Mak Morn, the last Pictish king. Kull’s role is secondary in this crossover tale. There was also a poem about Kull called “The King and the Oak” that Weird Tales published about 3 years after Howard committed suicide. Other than these 4 pieces, none of Howard’s works involving Kull would be published until many years after his death.
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