Marvel: Acquire the 'Conan The Barbarian' IP and more

The Issue

With Marvel having a history of having had the comic book rights to the 'Conan The Barbarian' IP for many years, during which time Marvel implemented the Robert E Howard & HP Lovecraft mythos(AKA the Lovecraft Circle mythos) into the Marvel Universe, and with Marvel having had the comic book rights to the Robert-E-Howard-created IPs 'Conan The Barbarian', 'Kull The Conqueror', 'Bran Mak Morn', 'Dark Agnes', 'Solomon Kane', and 'James Allison' from 2018 to 2022, and having implemented those properties into the Marvel canon and having made a time-displaced Conan a member of the super-anti-hero team called the Savage Avengers, it would only make sense for Marvel to acquire full ownership of those IPs and the other related Robert-E-Howard-created IPs(including 'Cormac Mac Art') by acquiring & absorbing Conan Properties International, to acquire full ownership of the related IP 'Red Sonja' by acquiring & absorbing Red Sonja LLC, and to acquire full ownership of the related IPs 'The Eternal Champion', 'Kane The Mystic Swordsman', and 'Thongor'.

I believe that the Robert E Howard & HP Lovecraft mythos(AKA the Lovecraft Circle mythos) being part of the Marvel canon enriches the Marvel canon, and I'm sure that there are plenty of fans of these IPs who became fans of them through Marvel's work with them who agree. Fredrik Malmberg should be brought in to oversee Marvel's usage of these IPs, with him getting the final say on writers chosen for projects for the various forms of media.

For all of the pre-Marvel, pre-Dark-Horse, and pre-Dynamite literary stories of the 'Conan The Barbarian', 'Kull The Conqueror', 'Bran Mak Morn', 'Dark Agnes', 'Solomon Kane', and 'James Allison' IPs for which there exist comic book versions published by Marvel, Dark Horse, and/or Dynamite, new comic book versions of those stories should be created that have the best elements of the previous versions of those stories, and new comic book versions of the stories originated by Dark Horse and Dynamite should be created. It should be established that Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon) and Thulsa Doom are one & the same, with him being a shapeshifter. It should be established that Red Sonya of Rogatino is a descendant of Red Sonja.

The characters, locations, stories, etc created for films, TV series, video games, board games, & tabletop role-playing games(including the 2 'Conan The Barbarian' expansions created for the tabletop role-playing game 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons', which are 'Conan Unchained!' and 'Conan Against Darkness!', and the 'Conan The Barbarian' expansions created for the tabletop role-playing game 'GURPS') created for these IPs should be used for new comic books created for these IPs. All of the characters should have all of their outfits from all forms of media. Red Sonja's original backstory should be used. All of this should also be done with new rated-R-level Disney Plus original cel-shaded computer-animated TV series(which should have the same style of cel-shading as the MCU-adjacent TV series 'What If...?') that are set in the MCU, which should use the music scores of the previous films, TV series, & video games created for these IPs. There should be 2 MCU TV series that revolve around Conan, which should be a TV series that follows Conan from his early 20s to his death that's simply titled 'Conan The Barbarian', and a TV series that follows Conan during his childhood & teenagehood. There should be an MCU TV series titled 'Tales From The Hyborian Age' that uses all of the non-Conan & non-Red-Sonja Hyborian Age stories from all forms of media, including the stories created for the MMO video game(the music score of which should be used), strategy board game(including the expansion 'Adventures In Hyboria'), & novel 'Age of Conan' and the MMO video game 'Conan: Exiles'(the music score of which should be used). All of this should also be done with the related IPs created by the other members of the original Lovecraft Circle, who are HP Lovecraft, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Donald Wandrei, and Virgil Finlay.

Marvel should keep the MMO video games 'Age of Conan' and 'Conan: Exiles' running, so that fans can continue to enjoy them, said MMO video games should be made available for free, and, through gameplay modifiers that don't have to be unlocked, players should be given the options of having unlimited use of all weapons and having immediate access to all new in-game items(weapons, mounts, etc) & locations without having to grind, with new in-game items & locations becoming available for free after being only accessible through payments for 5 months upon their releases. Also, players should be able to create as many custom playable characters as they want, in addition to being able to play as pre-existing characters, including Conan, players should be able to spawn mounts, and there should be the option to play the games with minimal difficulty or no difficulty.

 

With the MCU TV series 'Conan The Barbarian', each season should have at least 24 episodes, and each episode should be anywhere from 45 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences) to 64 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences). Certain episodes of this TV series should have 2 stories, with the first 24 minutes to 34 minutes(without counting the opening production logo sequences and the intro sequence) having the 1st story and the rest of the episode having the 2nd story. For this TV series's intro sequences, inspiration should be taken from the intro sequences of the TV series 'Game of Thrones', the MCU TV series 'Daredevil' and 'Iron Fist', and the MCU miniseries 'The Defenders'. The 1st episode should use the Marvel-published 'Conan The Barbarian' comic book stories 'The Coming of Conan' and 'Lair of The Beast-Men'. There should be a multi-parter that pulls from the 1982 live-action 'Conan The Barbarian' film(with some elements of the first 2 episodes of the animated 'Conan The Barbarian' TV series 'Conan The Adventurer'[1992] being used), with Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom) & a bunch of members of his cult invading Conan's home village, Conan's family being slaughtered at Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom)'s command, Conan being captured & sold into slavery, Conan freeing himself and his fellow slaves from slavery, Conan setting off alongside a fellow former slave he befriended named Zula on a horse that Conan names "Thunder", in order to get revenge on Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom), Conan and Zula meeting & befriending Subotai, Valeria(who, unlike her counterpart from the 1982 film, shouldn't die), and Akiro, Conan, Zula, Subotai, and Valeria going to the city Zamora & raiding the Tower of The Serpent, and Conan, Zula, Subotai, and Valeria being arrested & taken to King Osric, who tasks them with bringing back his daughter, Princess Yasimina, who has fallen in with Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom)'s cult. The episodes of the 4-parter 'Conan of Aquilonia' should be titled 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 1: The Witch of The Mists', 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 2: Black Sphinx of Nebthu', 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 3: Red Moon of Zembabwei', and 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 4: Shadows In The Skull'. This TV series's version of the story 'The Slithering Shadow'(AKA 'Xuthal of The Dusk') should be titled 'The Slithering Shadow: Xuthal of The Dusk'.

 

With the MCU TV series 'Red Sonja', each season should have at least 24 episodes, and each episode should be anywhere from 45 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences) to 64 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences). Certain episodes of this TV series should have 2 stories, with the first 24 minutes to 34 minutes(without counting the opening production logo sequences and the intro sequence) having the 1st story and the rest of the episode having the 2nd story. This TV series should be started with a multi-parter titled 'The She-Devil With A Sword' that pulls from the original 'Red Sonja' origin comic book story, the 1985 live-action 'Red Sonja' film(except with the abscence of Kalidor, who should be established as being Conan), and the Dynamite-published comic book story 'Red Sonja: Birth of The She-Devil'.

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The Issue

With Marvel having a history of having had the comic book rights to the 'Conan The Barbarian' IP for many years, during which time Marvel implemented the Robert E Howard & HP Lovecraft mythos(AKA the Lovecraft Circle mythos) into the Marvel Universe, and with Marvel having had the comic book rights to the Robert-E-Howard-created IPs 'Conan The Barbarian', 'Kull The Conqueror', 'Bran Mak Morn', 'Dark Agnes', 'Solomon Kane', and 'James Allison' from 2018 to 2022, and having implemented those properties into the Marvel canon and having made a time-displaced Conan a member of the super-anti-hero team called the Savage Avengers, it would only make sense for Marvel to acquire full ownership of those IPs and the other related Robert-E-Howard-created IPs(including 'Cormac Mac Art') by acquiring & absorbing Conan Properties International, to acquire full ownership of the related IP 'Red Sonja' by acquiring & absorbing Red Sonja LLC, and to acquire full ownership of the related IPs 'The Eternal Champion', 'Kane The Mystic Swordsman', and 'Thongor'.

I believe that the Robert E Howard & HP Lovecraft mythos(AKA the Lovecraft Circle mythos) being part of the Marvel canon enriches the Marvel canon, and I'm sure that there are plenty of fans of these IPs who became fans of them through Marvel's work with them who agree. Fredrik Malmberg should be brought in to oversee Marvel's usage of these IPs, with him getting the final say on writers chosen for projects for the various forms of media.

For all of the pre-Marvel, pre-Dark-Horse, and pre-Dynamite literary stories of the 'Conan The Barbarian', 'Kull The Conqueror', 'Bran Mak Morn', 'Dark Agnes', 'Solomon Kane', and 'James Allison' IPs for which there exist comic book versions published by Marvel, Dark Horse, and/or Dynamite, new comic book versions of those stories should be created that have the best elements of the previous versions of those stories, and new comic book versions of the stories originated by Dark Horse and Dynamite should be created. It should be established that Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon) and Thulsa Doom are one & the same, with him being a shapeshifter. It should be established that Red Sonya of Rogatino is a descendant of Red Sonja.

The characters, locations, stories, etc created for films, TV series, video games, board games, & tabletop role-playing games(including the 2 'Conan The Barbarian' expansions created for the tabletop role-playing game 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons', which are 'Conan Unchained!' and 'Conan Against Darkness!', and the 'Conan The Barbarian' expansions created for the tabletop role-playing game 'GURPS') created for these IPs should be used for new comic books created for these IPs. All of the characters should have all of their outfits from all forms of media. Red Sonja's original backstory should be used. All of this should also be done with new rated-R-level Disney Plus original cel-shaded computer-animated TV series(which should have the same style of cel-shading as the MCU-adjacent TV series 'What If...?') that are set in the MCU, which should use the music scores of the previous films, TV series, & video games created for these IPs. There should be 2 MCU TV series that revolve around Conan, which should be a TV series that follows Conan from his early 20s to his death that's simply titled 'Conan The Barbarian', and a TV series that follows Conan during his childhood & teenagehood. There should be an MCU TV series titled 'Tales From The Hyborian Age' that uses all of the non-Conan & non-Red-Sonja Hyborian Age stories from all forms of media, including the stories created for the MMO video game(the music score of which should be used), strategy board game(including the expansion 'Adventures In Hyboria'), & novel 'Age of Conan' and the MMO video game 'Conan: Exiles'(the music score of which should be used). All of this should also be done with the related IPs created by the other members of the original Lovecraft Circle, who are HP Lovecraft, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Donald Wandrei, and Virgil Finlay.

Marvel should keep the MMO video games 'Age of Conan' and 'Conan: Exiles' running, so that fans can continue to enjoy them, said MMO video games should be made available for free, and, through gameplay modifiers that don't have to be unlocked, players should be given the options of having unlimited use of all weapons and having immediate access to all new in-game items(weapons, mounts, etc) & locations without having to grind, with new in-game items & locations becoming available for free after being only accessible through payments for 5 months upon their releases. Also, players should be able to create as many custom playable characters as they want, in addition to being able to play as pre-existing characters, including Conan, players should be able to spawn mounts, and there should be the option to play the games with minimal difficulty or no difficulty.

 

With the MCU TV series 'Conan The Barbarian', each season should have at least 24 episodes, and each episode should be anywhere from 45 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences) to 64 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences). Certain episodes of this TV series should have 2 stories, with the first 24 minutes to 34 minutes(without counting the opening production logo sequences and the intro sequence) having the 1st story and the rest of the episode having the 2nd story. For this TV series's intro sequences, inspiration should be taken from the intro sequences of the TV series 'Game of Thrones', the MCU TV series 'Daredevil' and 'Iron Fist', and the MCU miniseries 'The Defenders'. The 1st episode should use the Marvel-published 'Conan The Barbarian' comic book stories 'The Coming of Conan' and 'Lair of The Beast-Men'. There should be a multi-parter that pulls from the 1982 live-action 'Conan The Barbarian' film(with some elements of the first 2 episodes of the animated 'Conan The Barbarian' TV series 'Conan The Adventurer'[1992] being used), with Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom) & a bunch of members of his cult invading Conan's home village, Conan's family being slaughtered at Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom)'s command, Conan being captured & sold into slavery, Conan freeing himself and his fellow slaves from slavery, Conan setting off alongside a fellow former slave he befriended named Zula on a horse that Conan names "Thunder", in order to get revenge on Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom), Conan and Zula meeting & befriending Subotai, Valeria(who, unlike her counterpart from the 1982 film, shouldn't die), and Akiro, Conan, Zula, Subotai, and Valeria going to the city Zamora & raiding the Tower of The Serpent, and Conan, Zula, Subotai, and Valeria being arrested & taken to King Osric, who tasks them with bringing back his daughter, Princess Yasimina, who has fallen in with Thoth-Amon(AKA Wrath-Amon and Thulsa Doom)'s cult. The episodes of the 4-parter 'Conan of Aquilonia' should be titled 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 1: The Witch of The Mists', 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 2: Black Sphinx of Nebthu', 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 3: Red Moon of Zembabwei', and 'Conan of Aquilonia - Part 4: Shadows In The Skull'. This TV series's version of the story 'The Slithering Shadow'(AKA 'Xuthal of The Dusk') should be titled 'The Slithering Shadow: Xuthal of The Dusk'.

 

With the MCU TV series 'Red Sonja', each season should have at least 24 episodes, and each episode should be anywhere from 45 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences) to 64 minutes long(without counting the opening & closing production logo sequences and the intro & outro sequences). Certain episodes of this TV series should have 2 stories, with the first 24 minutes to 34 minutes(without counting the opening production logo sequences and the intro sequence) having the 1st story and the rest of the episode having the 2nd story. This TV series should be started with a multi-parter titled 'The She-Devil With A Sword' that pulls from the original 'Red Sonja' origin comic book story, the 1985 live-action 'Red Sonja' film(except with the abscence of Kalidor, who should be established as being Conan), and the Dynamite-published comic book story 'Red Sonja: Birth of The She-Devil'.

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Robert "Bob" Iger(CEO of Disney)
Robert "Bob" Iger(CEO of Disney)
Kevin Feige(CCO of Marvel Entertainment, President of Marvel Studios, and CCO of Marvel Animation)
Kevin Feige(CCO of Marvel Entertainment, President of Marvel Studios, and CCO of Marvel Animation)
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Petition created on December 14, 2020