But while Red Sonja's skill in the handling of swords is a divine gift, Agnes's skill is a mixture of innate talent and training. Like the later character Red Sonja, who was based on another Howard character, Red Sonya of Rogatino, Agnes has red hair and a short temper. When de Clisson is killed, Agnes heads for Italy with Villiers. She meets Etienne Villiers, who at first attempts to sell her to a brothel, and Guiscard de Clisson, a mercenary captain who trains her as a swordswoman. She avoids this by killing the bridegroom and running away. The character of Agnes was beaten by her father and almost forced into an arranged marriage.

It is revealed in another story, 'The Footfalls Within', that this is the mythical Staff of Solomon, a talisman older than the Earth and unimaginably powerful, much more so than even N'Longa knew.ĭark Agnes de Chastillon was the protagonist of three stories set in 16th Century France, which were not printed until a long time after the author's death. During one of his later adventures his friend N'Longa, an African shaman, gave him a juju staff that served as a protection against evil but could easily be wielded as a weapon. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back.Ī tall, sombre and gloomy man of pale skin, gaunt face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat, he is dressed entirely in black and his weaponry usually consists of a rapier, a dirk, and a brace of flintlock pistols. Solomon Kane is a late 16th–early 17th century Puritan who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms.

But they aren't stopping there, they are also creating new runs of comic books based on Howard's characters Dark Agnes, Solomon Kane, and more.

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