Claw the Unconquered No.4: Museum Object and Cultural History
Claw the Unconquered No.4: date made: 1975. date made: 1976. maker: D. C. Comics, Inc..
The object in the museum catalogue
In 1975 DC Comics introduced "Claw," a barbarian with a cursed hand who travelled the fantastical land of "Pytharia." Created by writer Dave Michelin and artist Ernie Chan, Claw takes obvious inspiration from Marvel Comic's popular depiction of pulp author Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Barbarian," which first hit comic stands in 1970.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1975
- date made: 1976
- maker: D. C. Comics, Inc.
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 6 3/4 in x 10 3/4 in; x 17.145 cm x 27.305 cm
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Fantasy
- ID Number: 2013.3039.023
- catalog number: 2013.3039.023
- nonaccession number: 2013.3039
- Credit Line: Gift of George R. Zug
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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