Beowulf

Few characters arrive with such mythic weight as Beowulf, stepping into Bronze Age comics pages in 1979 courtesy of the formidable creative pairing of Gerry Conway and José Luis García-López in Savage Tales #17 — published by Australian outfit K. G. Murray. This is a figure drawn from one of literature's oldest heroic traditions, reborn in the sword-and-sorcery boom of the early eighties alongside a remarkable roster of warriors and gods: Hercules, Ares, Claw, and Valcan all share his world. With appearances across Savage Tales, Savage Tales Album, and Swordsmen and Sorcerers, Beowulf occupies a compact but characterful corner of Bronze Age adventure comics that any collector with a taste for myth-soaked pulp heroism will want to seek out.