KANE! (PART 2)

KANE! (PART 1)

After the re-launch of  Robert E. Howard's Conan stories in the lauded Lancer paperback series, a new wave of sword and sorcery heroes followed. With characters such as John Jake's Brak, Lin Carters' Thongor and Gardner F. Fox's Kothar, some were good and some not-so-good. One that rose above the fray was Karl Edward Wagner's Kane. Wagner infused his hero with a brooding cloud of doom surrounding his adventures and he was prone to introspection unlike many of the others of his ilk. Intelligently written and often with added healthy doses of horror, Wagner kept Kane in front of readers off-and-on for 15 years, from 1970-1985, with 3 novels and 20 short stories.

This is one of them, from FANTASY TALES, a semi-pro 'zine that usually featured top-notch writers and artists among its pages.

FANTASY TALES

Vol. 4 No. 7

Spring, 1981

Publisher: Fantasy Tales

Editor: Stephen Jones

Associate Editor: David A. Sutton

Cover: Jim Pitts

Pages: 52

Cover price: 75p/$2.50