Conan is hunting a dragon in somebody else’s world. 

Thulsa Doom is clawing his way back from the dead. 

Solomon Kane is walking straight into a war in India.

And somewhere on the Western Sea, a pirate island apparently wants Conan’s body and soul.

September is busy.

You’ll want to bring steel.

Conan and Dragonero Corner Their Quarry in Conan the Barbarian & Dragonero #5

Conan has spent four issues very far from home.

Pulled out of the Hyborian Age and dumped into the two-mooned world of Erondár, he’s been imprisoned, attacked by wyverns, introduced to a flying skyship and forced into an uneasy partnership with professional dragon slayer Ian Aranill.

All because one extremely troublesome dragon stole a set of sacred gems from Tarantia.

Those gems are seals keeping a primordial demon locked away.

Issue #5, releasing September 2, finally brings Conan and Dragonero into the ancient mountain ruins where their quarry has gone to ground. The dragon is healing. The seals are in danger. Whatever suspicion remained between the two warriors has become considerably less important.

Lorenzo Nuti’s watercolor art has given this crossover a look unlike anything else in the current Conan line, which is fitting when half the fun has been watching Conan try to survive a fantasy world that operates by completely different rules.

Now he gets to do what he understands perfectly well: kill the monster.

Savage Sword of Conan #16 Opens the Door to Tides of the Tyrant-King

If you’re planning to read Tides of the Tyrant-King, your September reading starts here.

The Savage Sword of Conan #16 arrives September 16 with 64 black-and-white pages and three stories written by Jim Zub that start loading the gun for what’s coming.

Nicola Scott draws a Conan story built around corrupted memories and creeping madness. Chris Campana handles a new Steve Corcoran adventure that follows Robert E. Howard’s weird western tale “The Vultures of Whapeton.” Sean Izaakse takes readers into the hidden past of a woman who will matter in the upcoming miniseries.

That is a strange mix even by Savage Sword standards—Conan psychological horror, a Howard gunslinger, and a mystery character—and that’s exactly what this magazine should be doing. And for those of you who judge a book by its cover despite all the warnings, Joe Jusko and Nick Percival have both supplied new artwork worthy of the rack.

Thulsa Doom Is Back in Tides of the Tyrant-King #1

Conan thought the Atlantean necromancer was finished, but he was mistaken.

On September 23, Jim Zub and Jesús Merino launch Conan the Barbarian: Tides of the Tyrant-King, a four-issue event built around the return of Thulsa Doom.

The Free Comic Book Day 2026 issue already showed how weird this is going to get. One half of the story follows Conan in the Hyborian Age, where signs of Doom’s return are starting to surface. The other follows World War I veteran Stephen Costigan from the trenches of France to London in 1924, where an encounter with the Black Stone leads him toward something skull-faced that should probably have stayed dead.

Now those threads start tightening, as Conan must fight an enemy whose reach extends far beyond one kingdom, one lifetime, or even Conan’s own age.

Solomon Kane Follows the Lion to War in The Lion Errant #3

Solomon Kane has followed a mysterious black-maned lion all the way into a collision between an army and something much older.

Patrick Zircher writes, draws and colors Solomon Kane: The Lion Errant #3, releasing September 23.

Kane has been pulled into the conflict surrounding Rani Durgavati and the Mughal Empire, with the coming battle centered around the stronghold of Chauragarh. But armies are rapidly becoming only part of his problem.

Gods and demons are now stirring, and Kane happens to be carrying an Atlantean staff that may be tied directly to whatever is waking up.

Conan and Valeria’s Pirate Life Gets Worse in Conan the Barbarian #35

Piracy was going pretty well until an invisible monster showed up.

Conan and Valeria are running with the Red Brotherhood on the Western Sea when the Cursed Shores Beyond arc takes them somewhere considerably worse than another naval battle.

The previous issues have already thrown an unseen attacker at the crew, knocked Conan unconscious and spared him for some kind of future ritual. Then the survivors washed up on an uncharted island lined with grotesque monoliths containing rotting corpses.

Things get worse in Issue #35.

Releasing September 30, the new chapter has occult forces from Conan’s past coming for his body and soul while he and Valeria try to survive whatever has claimed this island.

Fernando Dagnino is exactly the artist you want for a story moving between pirate violence and heavy-shadowed supernatural horror, and there’s another reason to pay attention to this issue: counting the previous Free Comic Book Issues under his pen plus the #0 issue of this run, it gives Jim Zub 39 consecutive issues on Conan the Barbarian, making this his longest uninterrupted run on a comic series.

Hopefully Conan survives the occasion.

One quick note: There will be no new Heroic Signatures e-book release in September. E-pubs return in October with Bêlit: The Pirate Queen’s Promise, while El Borak: The Dust Demons of Nuristan has been delayed to November.

But, in the meantime, Thulsa Doom is back, Kane is at war, and Conan is being hunted on two fronts. 

The beginning of the end of the year doesn’t let up. 

Get to your local comic shop if you want to keep up.