Another peek into my mild obsession with Conan the Barbarian. Back in 2018, I got the re-issue LP from Milan with the sweet Laurent Durieux artwork. It’s great! But it has a slightly different selection of tracks (in a different order) than the original pressing (there are tons more tracks, too — the complete soundtrack, only available on CD, is something like 50 pieces, which is maybe too many to really appreciate). So I decided to get an original pressing, because I really like “Orphans of Doom.”

But, when I was looking for one, I found the French edition from Cine Music, Conan le Barbare (1982). The US version reuses the US movie poster and logo, of course, which is great, but I own the poster. The French version, though, just look at that typeface! Not sure who the artist is (signature looks like Thompson?) but it looks like a bit of a riff on the Japanese poster by Seito (which I think was used in the French market, along with the Frazetta painting that is inset there on the right). Anyway, the point is, I’m always hungry for old stuff that’s new to me, and this sure was.