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Awards, adaptations and setting
Setting and characters
- Period
- Hyborian Age
- Characters
- Conan the Barbarian
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
In print
- Editions recorded
- 3 on Open Library, 1 in English
- Wikipedia
- Articles in 2 languages
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How many editions of Conan the Barbarian are there?
We track 1 edition of Conan the Barbarian. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
When was Conan the Barbarian first published?
Conan the Barbarian by L. Sprague de Camp was first published in 1982.