RED NAILS IN THE SUNSET by Roy Thomas
By 1973, Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian color comic book had slowly, if not surely, become a hit. Since I had written (and by and large edited) all its issues to date, and the young Englishman Barry Smith had penciled all but two of those, we were given full credit by editor Stan Lee for the magazine’s success. MORE

THE ART OF RED NAILS by Jose Villarrubia
The novella Red Nails is the last story that Robert E. Howard wrote about his most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, and it is considered by many to be among his best. It was illustrated when published in 1936.... MORE

ROBERT E. HOWARD AND RED NAILS by Andrew Steven
Red Nails, on the surface, is exactly what one would expect and desire from a Weird Tales pulp tale, especially a Robert E. Howard Weird Tales pulp tale! A rip-snortin' rollercoaster ride of sex, violence, and sorcery, with, dare I say, a knowing wink of "you'll get a kick
outta this!" MORE

A FINAL WORD by Michael Thibodeaux
I was nineteen years old when Barry Smith’s illustrated
version of Red Nails hit the stands in 1973 . . . MORE