Kull the Conqueror Origins - Conan The Barbarian's Gritty Spiritual Predecessor - Explored In Detail

Kids of the new generation will rarely know the magic of reading a storybook while pretending to study or eagerly counting days for the next edition of comic books to arrive. Has the ascendancy of technology bid farewell to the world of reading? I am sure it has not. Let us salute and pay tribute to the legendary author Robert E Howard and take you to his world of fiction, which has mesmerized generations of horror, fantasy fans for many decades. Today we lift the curtain and reveal the inspiration behind his creation of the legendary character ''Conan the Barbarian", which is none other than, ''Kull the Conqueror''.
The first story of Kull appeared on the shelves in the August of 1929 titled, ''The Shadow Kingdom'' in Weird Tales magazine, followed by ''The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune'', in September 1929. Before Howard's premature death in 1936, another story on Kull titled ''Kings of the Night'' appeared in November 1930, but Kull was not the primary protagonist here. The story's main character was Bran Mac Morn, another heroic character of pulp fiction by Howard. The most surprising fact is that the unpublished, rejected tale of Kull named ''By This Axe I Rule'', was rewritten into the introductory superhit Conan story, ''The Phoenix of the Sword'', which was issued in December 1932 in Weird Tales.
The stories bear striking resemblances regarding the plot, while the main differences in the levels were the time and place. The fictional period when Kull belonged was the Thurian Age, which ended with the great Cataclysm paving the way for the Hyborian Age when Conan stories were framed. Both the adventurous barbarians shouldered the revolutions and became rulers of powerful nations of the world. But while Conan ruled Aquilonia, Kull ascended the throne of Valusia. Despite the analogy of Kull and Conan, Howard evidently characterized them differently. But as rightly said by Douglas Cohen, ''Without question, the most important connection between these two characters is that without Kull of Atlantis there never would have been the icon known as Conan the Barbarian''.

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