![]() Elric Melniboné's first comic book appearance was in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian issues #14–15 (March–May 1972), published about 11 years after the Moorcock created Elric. Moorcock subsequently enlarged Elric's Saga, which now runs to several volumes including the original Conan comics. A further four novelettes and four novellas followed, the last of these terminating the sequence with the close of Elric's angst-ridden life. He slays his true love, is himself a wizard in league with the demon lord Arioch, and leads invaders to lay waste to Melniboné.Įlric first appeared in print in 1961 in Michael Moorcock’s novelette, "The Dreaming City" ( Science Fantasy #47 June 1961). Elric is an intentional inversion of Conan: instead of a mighty Brawny barbarian warrior who fights his way to the top and gains the throne of Aquilonia (which is a country about a hundred miles north of Elric's kingdom), Elric is a weak and sickly but highly cultured emperor who throws the throne of Melniboné away. ![]() However Elric and Conan have major differences. Elric is another hero of the Hyborian age just like Conan. ![]() Portrait of Elric by James Cawthorn used for the original edition of StormbringerĮlric of Melniboné is another icon of fantasy fiction, the protagonist of Michael Moorcock’s epic sword-and-sorcery tales. ![]()
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