Dragons in the sky, gods on the battlefield, and a pirate queen waiting at the dock. 

July is five releases deep and every single one of them is swinging for the rafters.

Two Worlds Collide in One in Hunt Conan and Dragonero #3

The first two issues of this landmark seven-issue crossover between Heroic Signatures and Italy’s Sergio Bonelli Editore dropped Conan into entirely foreign territory. 

In the first two issues, a dragon appeared over Tarantia, stole imprisoned gemstones holding an ancient demon, and Conan lacerated its wing the creature teleported him and his men into Erondár, the high-fantasy realm of Dragonero. 

Issue #3, releasing on July 8th, is where the collision finally becomes a partnership: Conan comes face-to-face with Ian Aranill, Erondár’s premier dragon slayer, and the two warriors set aside mutual suspicion to unite their blades against the Black Dragon before a primordial evil escapes into the Hyborian Age. 

Writers Luca Enoch and Stefano Vietti are steering two fundamentally incompatible fantasy traditions into direct narrative contact, and artist Lorenzo Nuti is making the visual collision seamless. The book ships with Max Von Fafner’s standard trade dress on Cover A and a striking variant by Nuti himself on Cover B, giving collectors two very different windows into the same hunt. 

A Murderer’s Row Reveals Itself The Savage Sword of Conan #15

The black-and-white magazine format has always been where the Conan line takes its biggest creative risks, and Issue #15 of Savage Sword of Conan stacks the deck harder than any issue yet. 

These 64 pages, releasing on July 15th, are headlined by the husband-and-wife powerhouse of Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, with art by Andy Belanger, delivering a brutal tale of swapped assassination targets that promises a labyrinth of betrayal perfectly suited for Savage Sword’s high-contrast, no-guardrails visual register. 

But the real buried treasure here is the backup story: the return of Breckenridge Elkins, Robert E. Howard’s beloved, catastrophically strong hillbilly from the frontier tall-tale tradition, written by legendary Marvel architect Tom DeFalco with art by the iconic Ron Frenz. 

Alex Horley brings the Frazetta-heir energy on Cover A while Esad Ribic delivers a characteristically stunning Cover B, and you’ll want to see both before you pick.

The Pirate Queen Returns in Conan the Barbarian #33

Jim Zub’s previous arc, Ghosts & Echoes, turned the flagship title into something critics called a “slasher in the Hyborian Age”. 

That arc saw Conan stalked through the dark alleys of Khoraja by the unstoppable Son of the Tooth, an assassin who grew stronger with every civilian he killed, forcing an exhausted, leading an injured Conan to have to survive on cunning and environmental traps instead of brute strength. 

Issue #33, releasing on July 29th, pivots from that claustrophobic horror into sweeping maritime adventure with the new arc Cursed Shores Beyond, and the hook is the one fans have been waiting for: the return of Valeria, the deadly pirate from Howard’s masterpiece Red Nails, now riding alongside Conan as full-fledged pirates of the Red Brotherhood on the Western Sea. 

But the Hyborian Age never lets the past stay buried, as occult forces from Conan’s previous battles have locked onto his trajectory and won’t rest until his body and soul are torn apart. 

Fernando Dagnino and colorist Diego Rodriguez bring the maritime scope to life, and the variant cover gallery is stacked: Rob De La Torre’s signature shadowed trade dress on A, a Dagnino interior-artist variant on B, Max Von Fafner on C, Don Aguillo on D, and Rebeca Puebla on E. 

If the swashbuckling brutality of the Hyborian Age already has you on the edge of your seat, then you’ll pleased to know that other characters from the Howard-verse are entering the fold this month with their own new releases!

Steel Meets the Divine in Solomon Kane: The Lion Errant #1

Patch Zircher’s Solomon Kane work in the pages of Savage Sword earned the somber Puritan his own series, and The Lion Errant is an auteur launch in the truest sense. 

Guided by a mysterious black-maned lion, Kane is drawn far from his familiar European fog and African wilderness directly into the heart of 16th-century India, where the warrior queen Rani Durgavati stands against the expanding Mughal Empire in a conflict where ancient gods and demons are openly walking the battlefield. Kane’s arcane Atlantean staff may hold the key to stopping the supernatural storm, and watching a rigid English Puritan navigate the vibrant, polytheistic theater of Mughal India guarantees ideological and physical conflict on every page. 

Releasing on July 22nd, Titan is backing this launch hard with five covers: Zircher’s own trade dress on A, plus variants from Stuart Sayger, J.H. Williams III, Dan Brereton, and Utsab Chatterjee spanning painted pulp to esoteric layouts. 

Roman Gold and Cursed Steel Abound in The Heroic Legends Series’ Cormac Mac Art: Isle of Swords

July’s entry into the Heroic Legends digital series is marked by the appearance of Cormac Mac Art, Howard’s fierce Gaelic raider of the waning Roman Empire, who is on a doomed treasure hunt with his brutal ally Wulfhere the Skull-Splitter. 

A pure pulp premise, this story illustrated a desperate search for lost Roman gold goes sideways when a violent shipwreck slaughters their crew and strands the two warriors on the cursed Isle of Swords. To survive, the injured Wulfhere and the cunning Cormac must fight through spiteful Saxons, preternatural Picts, and terrifyingly animated statues. 

Author Matthew John delivers prose that’s been praised for its authentic Howard pacing, brutal and atmospheric, with striking cover art by Juan Alberto Hernandez. Grab it on release day, July 28th.

Can Conan and Ian stop the Black Dragon before a demon slips between worlds? 

Will Kane’s ancient relic hold against living gods? 

Can Valeria and Conan outrun the occult forces hunting them across the Western Sea? 

There’s only one way to find out. 

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