Comics featuring Conan the Barbarian and other characters by Robert E. Howard are currently published by Titan Comics, together with entertainment studio Heroic Signatures. Their collaboration to publish comics, graphic novels, and omnibus collections of older Conan comics started in 2023, after Marvel lost the license in 2022. The first ongoing series is Conan the Barbarian which started in August 2023. With crossover events and spin-off mini-series featuring other Robert E. Howard characters, such as Kull of Atlantis or Solomon Kane, they created a shared universe which is sometimes called the Howardverse.
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Conan the Barbarian
The first ongoing series Conan the Barbarian was introduced during Free Comic Book Day 2023 with an in issue that served as a prologue, followed by an ongoing series that started in August 2023. The series is written by Jim Zub, and started with Roberto De La Torre and Doug Braithwaite as artists alternating between story arcs. Danica Brine served as guest artist for two issues during the fifth story arc, and Fernando Dagnino joined the artist rotation for the sixth arc, starting with issue #21. For the milestone issue #25, Alex Horley painted an oversized King Conan story.
The Savage Sword of Conan
The Savage Sword of Conan was announced in July 2023 as a limited series, to be published in black-and-white and magazine-sized format. The first issue was released in February 2024 with issues published every two months. Each issue features comics, prose stories, poems, and art pages, starring Conan as well as other characters by Robert E. Howard. The magazine is edited by Chris Butera. Titan Comics initially committed to six issues, but announced at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con that the series would be extended to a second year, and in 2025 it was further extended to a third year.
Howardverse crossovers
Conan: Battle of the Black Stone was a crossover event with Conan and other Robert E. Howard characters, namely Solomon Kane, Dark Agnes, James Allison, El Borak and Conrad and Kirowan. It started with a Free Comic Book Day issue in May 2024, written by Jim Zub and art by Jonas Scharf. This was followed by a collection of short stories in The Savage Sword of Conan #4 and a mini-series titled Conan: Battle of the Black Stone published from September to December 2024.
A second crossover event titled Conan: Scourge of the Serpent, written by Jim Zub with art by Ivan Gil, started publication 2025. The event kicked off with a Free Comic Book Day issue in May 2025 and was followed by a mini-series series starting in September 2025. The story features various Howardian characters and takes place in three different times that are "metaphysically linked": the Thurian age with Kull, the Hyborian age with Conan and the twentieth century with John Kirowan.
A third crossover event titled Conan: Tides of the Tyrant-King is being published in 2026. It features Thulsa Doom against Conan and his allies, and is again written by Jim Zub, with art by Spanish artist Jesús Merino. The event began in May with a Free Comic Book Day issue, and will be followed by a mini-series in September 2026.
Solomon Kane
After positive responses to a serialized Solomon Kane back-up story by Patrick Zircher in the first three issues of The Savage Sword of Conan, Heroic Signatures
greenlit a four-issue mini series titled Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring, written and drawn by Zircher and published in 2025. The story takes place in the 16th century in southern Europe and Africa and features the ancient "Serpent Ring" from Thoth-Amon (also featured in the Robert E. Howard stories "The Phoenix on the Sword" and "The Haunter of the Ring", which take place during the Hyborian age and in the 1930s, respectively).
Due to the success of the first Solomon Kane comic series, a second series titled Solomon Kane: The Lion Errant and is being published during summer 2026. It takes place a few years after the first series and depicts Kane traveling to India where he has to face new evils.
Kull of Atlantis
A comic series centering on Kull of Atlantis was first announced at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con. Further details were released at the SDCC the following year: it will be a four-issue mini series published in early 2026 and will be written by John Arcudi with art by Mark Buckingham.