When you say “sword-and-sorcery comics” you usually think of Roy Thomas and Barry Smith in Conan the Barbarian, back in October 1970. DC tested the waters in 1969 with “Nightmaster” in DC Showcase #82-84, then in 1971 there was a guest spot for Fafhrd and Grey Mouser in Wonder Woman #202 (August 1972), but DC didn’t put them in a regular title until March 1973 with Sword of Sorcery. You would think Charlton – Marvel and DC’s poor cousin – would be slow to take on the new fad of sword-and-sorcery comics, but in fact this was not the case.
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Charlton beat Marvel and DC to the sword-and-sorcery punch when they released Adventures of the Man-God Hercules and his back-up sidekick, “Thane of Bagarth” in 1967-68. But this wasn’t the last of the sword-and-sorcery tales at Charlton. Like the Warren titles Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella, and DC’s House of Mystery and Witching Hour, Charlton’s “mystery” lines would irregularly feature a sword-and-sorcery tale starting with “The Promise” in Ghostly Tales #101 (January 1973), written and drawn by San Ho Kim.
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