Which Robert E. Howard character would win in a fight?

aetris thought this was worth mentioning said Mon, Feb 12th 2018 at 1:37pm ET

Irk didn’t specify who the fight would be with, but I’m proceeding on the basis that it’d be @CEOpaperbagMatt.

A. Conan the Barbarian
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Better not tell you now

B. Kull the Conqueror
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Very doubtful

C. Solomon Kane
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Outlook good

D. Steve Costigan
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Yes

E. Bran Mak Morn
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Cannot predict now

F. Francis Xavier Gordon
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Outlook good

G. Breckinridge Elkins
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Outlook not so good

H. Red Sonya
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You may rely on it

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meh427 said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 12:18am ET:

Prob as the kid in “the shootist”

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- @meh427 perhaps you’re referring to Ron Howard
  
  capguncowboy said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 10:56am ET
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- @meh427 :
  
  aetris said Wed, Feb 14th 2018 at 9:35am ET
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moondrake said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 11:00am ET:

I think he loved Conan the best, and whichever character the writer likes best will win out in the end. So my money’s on Conan.

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- @moondrake - Breckinridge Elkins made ol’ Two-Gun Bob a sight more money than Conan ever did:
  
  aetris said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 5:31pm ET
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- aetris said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 5:42pm ET
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- aetris said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 5:42pm ET
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- aetris said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 5:49pm ET
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- aetris said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 6:16pm ET
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duodec said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 6:36pm ET:

I think I need to go book shopping. The Conan stories are wonderful but I’ve never read his other works…

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- @duodec - I went through a big REH phase many years ago, though I don’t think I ever got around to Costigan. Kull and Bran Mak Morn are very much in the spirit of Conan, Solomon Kane is an interesting variant on the theme, El Borak is a kind of poor man’s Talbot Mundy. Breckinridge Elkins is something completely different, a Wild-West mountain-man comedy series, which is frequently good for a chuckle if you like that kind of thing. REH’s weird horror is good too, some Cthulhu mythos, some not.
  
  aetris said Tue, Feb 13th 2018 at 7:33pm ET
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meh427 said Wed, Feb 14th 2018 at 10:13am ET:

Haha. Those images are too much. I was just being a smart ass, but that made my day.

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meh427 said Wed, Feb 14th 2018 at 10:14am ET:

A friend got me into those books as a youngster. We would ride our bikes all day to buy old SSOC. I still have all of them up at the old house.

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