BRONZE AGE (1970-1985)
Welcome to Savage Digest — Bronze Age Comic Book Reviews. Here you’ll find reviews of Robert E. Howard’s worlds in comic book form. We cover Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Kull, and other legendary heroes. Our focus is the Bronze Age of comics, a time when Howard’s stories were adapted into bold, unforgettable adventures.
Marvel Feature – Volume 02 Issue 05
My Rating ★★★ “The Bear God Walks!” Somewhere in the woods near a Zingarian Hamlet, death stalks the local residents. Every hunter that has ventured into the deep pines has never returned alive. Now a mere child has been ravaged …
Conan The Barbarian – Volume 01 Issue 05
My Rating ★★★★ “Zukala’s Daughter” On the road to Shadizar. It has been weeks since Conan survived the tower of Yara the sorcerer. Now the Cimmerian faces a new threat even more dangerous than magic spiders. A shapeshiftering tiger woman …
Creatures On The Loose – Volume 01 Issue 10
My Rating ★★★ “The Skull of Silence!” Kull and his men had traveled for several days towards Valusia without prolonged rest. The borderlands were treacherous, indeed, but the Tiger King had filled the time contemplating a recent debate between Ka-Nu …
Marvel Feature – Volume 02 Issue 04
My Rating ★★★★ “Eyes Of The Gorgon” The noose tightened around Sonja’s neck as the Zingaran villagers cheered on from the market square. Why did they continue to call her monster? Why the term Gorgon? Red Sonja was not even …
Kull The Conqueror – Volume 01 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★ “A King Comes Riding!” A seditious plot begins to unfold inside the backrooms of the royal palace. As King Kull debates his own Councilor Tu from the Topaz Throne, a group of Valusian saboteurs lay plans to …
Chamber Of Chills – Volume 01 Issue 02
My Rating ★★★★ “The Monster On The Mound!” Adapted from the story “The Horror From The Mound” by Robert E Howard. The Sheriff of Coyote Wells must be told about the murder near the old Indian Mound! But in the …
Journey Into Mystery – Volume 02 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★ “Dig Me No Grave!” Dan Kirowan fled the decrepit mansion of his friend John Grimlan as the old man lay dying from some unknown illness. The sight of the moribund man did not unnerve Dan as much …
Supernatural Thrillers – Volume 01 Issue 03
My Rating ★★★★ “The Valley of the Worm” Bragi’s clan had been slaughtered there in the place of broken stone. Niord, the warrior Gorm had called yellow-hair, stood upon the crest looking down at the carnage. This was no man …
Conan The Barbarian – Volume 01 Issue 04
My Rating ★★★ “The Tower Of The Elephant!” The Heart of the Elephant, what mystery does it hold? According to the loudmouth Zamourian, drunk on Artesian wine, immortality. Or, was it the key to Yaga’s sorcery? Conan was going to …
Savage Sword Of Conan – Volume 01 Issue 01
My Rating ★★★★★ “Curse Of The Undead-Man” The cut-purse thugs had swarmed Conan in a darkened alleyway by chance, but what the Cimmerian had found on the cobblestone moments ago was worth killing for. The Maul district of Zamora had …
Marvel Feature – Volume 02 Issue 03
My Rating ★★★★ “Balek Lives!” Recovered from her battle with Rejak the tracker, Sonja raced eastward to find a mysterious sorceress known as Neja. That Nemedian hag was the last known chronicler to the kingdoms of Thros and Skurga. She …
Marvel Feature – Volume 02 Issue 02
My Rating ★★★★ “Blood Of The Hunter” Sonja stood over the murdered body of a young crippled boy, a tear rolled down her weathered cheek. The lad was as arrogant as the day was long, and he showed no leniency …
