pickMy previous posts ridiculed this book, but Gardner Fox has the last laugh as I actually rather enjoyed it despite its manifold faults. I guess the Sword and Sorcery genre was such an early escape for me that it's now entwined with my DNA.
Still, having a character called "Alaine, the Lady of Shallone"! ??♂️?
Kothar is named by Gary Gygax as a recommended read for D&D players, and one of the stories, The Treasure in the Labyrinth, is the ?
"He leaped sideways, sword flashing in the sunlight. The blued blade clove through neckmeat..."
I literally lol-ed reading this! ? Mmmm! Neckmeat! ?
I think this goes so far into bad, it comes out the other side almost good (almost ?).
The image is Melvyn Grant cover art for a Conan book, and other than a change of hair colour, Kothar "the Cumberian" is a Conan clone, but the copy is rarely as good as the original, and this isn't. Still...
@BarbaraBB posted about a StoryGraph challenge recently, TBR I Spy, which she inspired me to join to help me focus on some of the titles I've rightly or wrongly neglected.
I added Kothar to the Bad A$$ prompt, the description being: "Find a cover that features a warrior/fighter/Barbarian etc. Basically someone on the cover that looks Bad A$$".
Gardner F. Fox was a comic writer who created super-heroes for DC including The Flash and Hawkman. ?
Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman | 
I have another book in the series, which I'll probably read soon now I've read the first, but I won't be making efforts to track down any others. 2w