Conan the Barbarian is jumping ship to a new comics publisher – again. Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures have teamed up on the Conan license for comics publication starting in 2023 with a brand new ongoing series. The publisher will also produce remastered archives, including the omnibus program spearheaded by Marvel Comics.
This is the second time the Conan license has left Marvel: the publisher began publishing Conan comics in the '70s but stopped when the license expired in the '90s. Dark Horse Comics picked up the license in the early aughts and published Conan from 2003-2018, at which point Marvel once again acquired the license and began publishing new Conan comics in 2019.
Three years later, Robert E. Howard's slate of characters – minus Red Sonja, who still resides at Dynamite – will feature in stories published by Titan in partnership with Heroic Signatures. A new Conan ongoing will be part of Titan's 10th-anniversary celebration, and the publisher has also teased limited series featuring other heroes from Howard's world.
"We have been working with Titan for a year on the prose side and established a good foundation for expanding our business together. When it became clear that Heroic Signatures would publish our own comics it was natural to partner with a team that we have known for decades. Their expertise in publishing is stellar and we couldn't be more excited to launch a barbarian horde of titles like Conan, Solomon Kane, Dark Agnes, and many more together," says Heroic Signatures president Fredrik Malmberg in the announcement.
Titan Comics and Titan Books co-publishers Vivian Cheung and Nick Landau add, "Following on from the Conan fiction and illustrated books Titan Books is publishing this year with
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