Conan In Germany!

We're heading into Germany...I hope you've got your passport!

Heyne Publishing (Heyne Verlag) is responsible for almost every book about Conan in Germany. There were 3 series - the first only 11 volumes, the second over 30 volumes, and third an impressive 54 volumes.

The first series featured primarily “traditional” Conan stories, with a mix of Frazetta and other "familiar" Conan novel cover art...

Heyne - Conan Series I

In the second series, the stories were again primarily those of western authors, and all of the covers were images from the Conan the Barbarian movie...I'm only posting a couple of examples below...if you want more cover samples, email me...or better yet, watch the damn film, by CROM!

Heyne - Conan Series II

It's the third series that you may find particularly interesting...again no big suprises with respect to the authors, but the spectacular covers were apparently all painted by accomplished German writer and illustrator Thomas Thiemeyer! Marek has provided us with many of these, and I was able to find a few more, but unfortunately this slideshow only represents two thirds of the series...

Heyne - Conan Series III

If you like what you see, I encourage you to pay Thomas a visit HERE to enjoy many more of his wonderful creations!

Heyne also published Das Conan Universum, by Erhard Ringer, containing many interesting articles, maps, etc. A beautiful 25"x36" color map (61cm x 86cm) came attached with the book, and this map, along with a whole bunch of other mighty fine ones, can be seen HERE!

Heyne - Das Conan Universum

To wrap things up for now, check these out - German Conan audiobooks!

Step aside Heyne, because here comes four Conan stories on cassette, courtesy of German publisher Delta Music! A bit of information about these can be had on the German website poltermuehle.de. Check out the covers...cool!! (sorry about the quality of a couple of these scans, it's the best I could find).

Conan - Delta Music

In closing, Marek, You sir are a god! Once again, a much deserved THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MATERIAL (and yes, I'm shouting so that you can hear me all the way from Poland)!