![]() ![]() Leiber wrote stories and novellas about the duo until 1988 and their collected adventures remain in print, currently in three omnibus volumes from Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy. They burst into print in Unknown a competitor to Weird Tales where Conan held sway, with a story in 1939. His companion known as the Mouser was, at best, five feet tall and a rogue in every way. The red-haired Fafhrd was a seven-foot tall giant who was as good a singer as he was a swordsman. The author deliberately created a pair unlike Howard’s hulking, monosyllabic brute. Leiber was already a prolific writer when he created the pair with his friend Harry Otto Fischer first through correspondence and then prose. ![]() ![]() Writer Denny O’Neil suggested they acquire the rights to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Howard’s creations and similar barbarians like Thongor, DC Comics wanted in on what might have been a hot genre.Īs DC tended to do at the time, they went for something a little more sophisticated, a little more literate. Nothing indicates success like imitation so while Marvel was scooping up Robert E. ![]() And thanks to Roy Thomas’ efforts, sword and sorcery came to comics with the successful Conan the Barbarian. First, it was a period of experimentation as superheroes waned in popularity a bit making room for more war, western, and supernatural titles. The early 1970s was an exciting period for a comic book reader because two different things were happening. ![]()
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