Near the tail end of my adolescent love for comic books I was enamored of both the Barry Smith-drawn Conan, and the many paperback books of Conan stories popular at the time. The other day I couldn't resist picking this up at the library, and taking a brief hiatus from the two "serious" books I'm reading (one far more serious than the other -- give me a through the weekend, I'll write them both up here). It includes "Hawks from the Sea," which I think is the original comic that made me conscious of Smith's art. The prose is purple, bombastic, overblown. Most of the art does not rise to the level of "Hawks..." I wasn't disappointed, but I couldn't recommend it. **
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