Publishing History
The essay has been published as follows:
- The Phantagraph (fan publication) February – November 1936 (first part of essay only – up to Conan's time)
- The Hyborian Age (Los Angeles-New York Cooperative Publications, 1938)
- Skull-Face and Others (Arkham House, 1946)
- The Coming of Conan (Gnome Press, 1953, first part of essay only)
- Conan (Lancer Books, 1967, first part of essay only)
- Conan the Avenger (Lancer Books, 1968, second part of essay only)
- Skull-Face Omnibus (Neville-Spearman Ltd., 1974, reprinted as 3-volume paperback, Panther Books Ltd., 1976)
- Red Nails (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977, also published in paperback, Berkley Books, 1977)
- The Conan Chronicles (Sphere Books, 1989, first part of essay only)
- The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Millennium, August 2000)
- Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria Volume One (Wandering Star, 2002)
- The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Ballantine Books, December 2003)
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