Marvel Premier Featuring the Mark of Kane No. 34
date: label: date made
content: 1977
name: label: maker
content: Marvel Comics
notes: label: Description
content: Author Robert E. Howard's creation Solomon Kane appears in this issue of 1976 a Marvel Premiere, a title produced by Marvel Comics to test the popularity of new characters. The story by Roy Thomas, with art by Howard Chaykin, is part two of an adaptation of Howard's pulp story Red Shadows, first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
label: Description
content: Howard, best known for authoring the adventures of Conan the Barbarian, wrote a number of stories and poems featuring Kane, a vengeful Puritan from around the turn of the 17th Century who, armed with flintlock pistols and edged weapons, adventured around the world wearing a signature slouched hat. After Howard's death, other authors have expanded upon Kane's mythos.
label: Description
content: The character has been featured in comics produced by Marvel, as well as Dark Horse. The gothic hero was portrayed by actor James Purefoy in the film Solomon Kane, released in 2009.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
label: Subject
content: Fantasy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George R. Zug
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.3039.284
label: nonaccession number
content: 2013.3039
label: catalog number
content: 2013.3039.284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; x 17.145 cm x 26.035 cm