I don't agree that BWS needs color. The reason I prefer the Essential is because I really like the story that Roy is telling. The BWS run stops two issues short. It's very difficult to follow the entire saga which ends with Conan The Barbarian #26 (IIRC) in Conan Saga. The BWS issues are grouped together, then the Gil Kane issues, then there's Savage Sword reprints, then they finally go back to CTB in Conan Saga #63! The Essential has CTB 1-25 all together without any of the nasty Dark Horse coloring. From there you just need Conan Saga #63 and you're done. It's a shame Marvel didn't stick in that one last issue because it would have been the perfect book.

Skipping the non-BWS issues is like reprinting the Kree-Skrull war without the non-Adams issue.

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