{"id":4487,"date":"2026-02-10T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:48:27","slug":"mail-call-for-2-10-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2026\/02\/10\/mail-call-for-2-10-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call For 2.10.26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Way back when Marvel reacquired the license to Conan, I picked up the first volume of the <em>Conan the King: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus<\/em>, but before the second volume came out, the license had moved once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, I read all of the volumes of the <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em> omnibus, and also the omnibus of Dark Horse stories by Kurt Busiek that Marvel put out while they had the license, and was going to start on <em>Conan the King<\/em>, but opted not to, as I only had the one volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Titan, the new license-holder, did continue with collecting the remaining stories, and I found the second volume at a decent price, so&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a0861bf224b4&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a0861bf224b4\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized wp-lightbox-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2026\/02\/20260209_204657.jpg?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4488\" style=\"width:530px\" 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