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Weird Tales (vol. 26) #6 (Dec. 1935):
“The Hour of the Dragon”
by Robert E. Howard

Weird Tales (vol. 26) #6

Title: “The Hour of the Dragon”

Medium: prose text story

Cover date: Dec. 1935

Publisher: Popular Fiction
Written by: Robert E. Howard


2 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: S Cimmerian paganism (esp. the
god Crom)
[barbarian] Clayton Publications Weird Tales, etc. 898
Ahriman Ahriman
(mentioned) 
deity
CBR Scale: D Zoroastrian deity
[1st app: Weird Tales (vol. 26) #6 (Dec. 1935)] Weird Tales Gnome Press, etc. 11

Adaptations of this prose text story:
Conan the Conqueror (1950)
Giant-Size Conan #1 (Sep. 1974): "The Hour of the Dragon"
The Savage Sword of Conan #10 (Feb. 1976): "Conan the Conqueror"

The Hour of the Dragon was first published as a serialized novel in Weird Tales in five parts, December 1935 through April 1936.