Elric Melniboné's first comic book appearance was in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian issues #14–15 (March–May 1972), published about 11 years after the Moorcock created Elric. Moorcock subsequently enlarged Elric's Saga, which now runs to several volumes including the original Conan comics. A further four novelettes and four novellas followed, the last of these terminating the sequence with the close of Elric's angst-ridden life. He slays his true love, is himself a wizard in league with the demon lord Arioch, and leads invaders to lay waste to Melniboné.Įlric first appeared in print in 1961 in Michael Moorcock’s novelette, "The Dreaming City" ( Science Fantasy #47 June 1961). Elric is an intentional inversion of Conan: instead of a mighty Brawny barbarian warrior who fights his way to the top and gains the throne of Aquilonia (which is a country about a hundred miles north of Elric's kingdom), Elric is a weak and sickly but highly cultured emperor who throws the throne of Melniboné away. However Elric and Conan have major differences. Elric is another hero of the Hyborian age just like Conan. Portrait of Elric by James Cawthorn used for the original edition of StormbringerĮlric of Melniboné is another icon of fantasy fiction, the protagonist of Michael Moorcock’s epic sword-and-sorcery tales.
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