This just shows what a tragedy it was that REH died young, all those characters he never developed beyond a few stories or story fragments.

"Everybody's gotta have a hobby" - HAH!

Cormac is a great character. I got the neat little hard back that came out in 1974. Tigers of the Sea. Donald M. Grant was the publisher. As you said , The editor , Richard Tierney worked with Glenn Lord to complete the unfinished stories in this volume. In the intro he tells you exactly what he added. Which is good. It also has some cool illustrations by Tim Kirk. Cormac has a few similarities with Howard’s other outlaw Irishman Black Turlogh O Brian. Perhaps he dropped Cormac in favor of Turlogh. I don’t know. I do know all of these stories are excellent. Thanks !

Definitely an underrated Howard character. Same with Turlogh Dubh O'Brien. Plenty of good sword and sorcery (or sword and history, or whatever you want to call it) between the two of them.

Good stuff Michael! I have a copy of Tiger's of the Sea around here somewhere. I should probably dig it up and reread it. And I did not know there were differences between the books! Great info!

Excellent as always! And my regards to Roger.

I have the Zebra A-format of Tigers of the Sea with the Jeffrey Jones cover art. Overall, B/B- material from REH.

Hello Michael Hello. Thank you so much for this Excellent Video. You ARE the Expert on Robert E Howard.

Nothing screams "high adventure" like horned helmets and skin-tight chainmail!

I liked about the unknown characters that Robert E Howard wrote it's not Conan Kull or Solomon kane related.

Michael great line: "Everybody needs a hobby!"

We love REH!!!!

I really liked the Andrew Offutt Cormac books growing up. It’s been 20 years since I’ve read them but from what I remember they were great.

I thought this was another Blood Meridian episode.

Very interesting. Yes the Fantasy Masterworks of the Conan stories came in the early 2000's, then the Wandering Star hardcovers were published I think.

I have the Zebra edition of Tigers of the Sea, really great series. Howard was almost accumulating an Eternal Champion of his own, where each character was in some ways reflective of the others (though I guess much of his motivation was more pragmatic than literary, simply reworking characters and concepts to sell to different markets.)

I gotta read more REH

I enjoy the stories featuring Cormac Mac Art and Bran Mak Morn despite many readers viewing them as "minor" creations of Howard.

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