Giant size CONAN THE BARBARIAN # 5 - Bob Layton

Everybody is familiar with Jack Kirby and John Romita's cover for GSCTB #5 right? Well check out comic book art legend Bob Layton's BAD ASS recreation. Begs the question..where is Bob now and why is he not doing a regular monthly series somewhere? Like maybe DARK HORSE COMICS!!!

Here is the actual printed comic cover. And then Jack's original pencils

I don't know how you feel...but I love it!!!

Happy birthday to Jack " KING " Kirby

It was rough finding this drawing on the web...it took about an hour to actually find it. I finally found it on Ebay of all places. We've seen Kirby Conan drawings before. The one where he's swinging his sword across his body and the cover of Giant sized CONAN #5...but this one from the "Jack Kirby Heroes and villains sketchbook" is special...he drew it specifically for his wife Roz to present as a present with other characters in one huge beautiful sketchbook. I have a copy of the sketchbook but the copy I have has all the drawings in inked form by different pro artists. I did not think that the guy who inked the CONAN drawing did Kirby's pencils any justice at all. He was just not right for the job IMHO.

But here it is in all his DYNAMIC greatness...CONAN by the KING!