Whereas this film's predecessor Barbarian Queen was able to benefit from the publicity of the successful big-budget Conan film and get some play in discount movie theaters, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was not so fortunate.
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Whereas this film's predecessor Barbarian Queen was able to benefit from the publicity of the successful big-budget film Conan the Barbarian, and was released to some discount movie theaters, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was released straight to video and DVD.
Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, liked to incorporate historical names into his pseudo-historical stories.
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Howard also used the name of 'Nabonidus' (father of Belshazzar) in the Conan tale "Rogues in the House" which appeared in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian #11.
Conan the Barbarian, the fictional barbarian from stories by Robert E. Howard
As a consequence of its hardiness, it has been nicknamed Conan the Bacterium.
The films he worked on included, Goodfellas, Memphis Belle, Shaft, Black Rain, Dragon, Dune, Conan the Barbarian series, Greystoke, and Cliffhanger.
He was nicknamed "Conan" by fans in reference to his powerful upper-body physique.
He has also been called Niner and "The Barbarian" (after "Conan the Barbarian").
According to a preview article in the March 2007 issue of Game Informer, Conan is an action/adventure game based on Robert E. Howard's famous sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian.
Paradox Interactive was previously a division of Paradox Entertainment, self-proclaimed owners and developers of properties such as Conan the Barbarian as created by pulp author Robert Ervin Howard.
This melody is a variation upon the melody heard in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian during the scene inside Thulsa Doom's stronghold, composed by Basil Poledouris.
Beside role-playing games, the company had its own magazine named Sinkadus, published translated gamebooks (the Lone Wolf series among others) as well as translated fantasy novels (beginning with a Conan the Barbarian book).
The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.
For instance, author and critic Damon Knight said in the November 1957 issue of Infinity that the book was a "pastel pastiche, superficial and generic, of Tarzan, Conan ... and heaven knows what else".
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As well as-supposedly-the setting for the stories by author Robert E. Howard about the character he created named Conan the Barbarian-which portray it-as part of what is called The Hyborian Age-which in turn-is like a "Fantasy Version of Earth".
It was first mentioned in the Conan the Barbarian novel The Hour of the Dragon as an ancient realm ruled by sorcerers and that collapsed before the timespan of the Conan stories.
Davidson appeared in a few films including The Black Six, M*A*S*H and Conan the Barbarian.
These depictions often occur in modern movies such as Conan the Barbarian, Highlander III: The Final Dimension and The Lord of the Rings and mislead their audiences into false understandings of the art.
Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza is a fantasy novel written by Roland Green featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
Conan and the Gods of the Mountain is a fantasy novel written by Roland Green featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
Conan the Mercenary is a fantasy novel written by Andrew J. Offutt and illustrated by Esteban Maroto featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, the second volume in a trilogy beginning with Conan and the Sorcerer and concluding with The Sword of Skelos.
In 1982, he co-starred in the film Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In 2011 she played the role of Maliva - mother of Rose McGowan's character Marique in the fantasy film Conan the Barbarian.
In a similar fashion to the world of Robert E Howard's Conan and of Jack London novels, civilisation is seen as having a softening and corrupting influence in comparison to the hardy Ahrmenee and the Horseclans, although not to the extent that they outweigh the peace and prosperity that Milo and others work towards.
Jody Samson (November 1, 1946 – December 27, 2008) was a knifemaker and bladesmith from Burbank, California who designed butterfly knives for Benchmade and the swords used in such movies as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, First Knight, The Mask of Zorro, Blade, Blind Fury, Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and Streets of Fire.
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Samson designed and built the swords, knives, and daggers used in a number of films including Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, Blind Fury, and Streets of Fire while he was working for Benchmade.
The newly launched Conan the Barbarian series from Dark Horse Comics by writer Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan uses Queen of the Black Coast as the basis for the first three issues.
The first "tale" would fall within the collection The Coming of Conan, the second between that volume and the collection Conan the Barbarian, the third within Conan the Barbarian, and the fourth between that volume and the collection The Sword of Conan.
The Conan Chronicles II is a collection of fantasy novels written by Robert Jordan featuring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard.
The Further Chronicles of Conan is a collection of fantasy novels written by Robert Jordan featuring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard.
Their myspace profile states their music was "inspired by the poetic dialogue of "Conan The Barbarian" and the dissected human anatomy drawings of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)".
The book collects five sword and sorcery tales of authors and protagonists prominent in the genre, featuring Robert E. Howard's Conan, Henry Kuttner's Elak, Lin Carter's Thongor, L. Sprague de Camp's Suar Peial, and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
From March 2014 it will be adapted by Fred Van Lente as a continuation of its Conan the Barbarian ongoing series after Brian Wood's departure.