CONAN VS. RUNE #1

Cover shows strong gloss and vibrant color with sharp corners and no visible creasing or spine stress in this photo; the book is in a protective sleeve which limits full assessment of edges. No fading, tears, or writing are visible on the front cover. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is based solely on the visible front surface.

Conan vs. Rune #1 is a one-shot crossover published by Marvel Comics in November 1995, teaming the publisher's licensed Robert E. Howard barbarian with Rune, the vampiric antihero created by Barry Windsor-Smith and published through Malibu's Bravura imprint. The book arrived during a period of frequent inter-company and inter-imprint crossover experiments in the mid-1990s direct market, pairing a long-running sword-and-sorcery license with a creator-owned horror-fantasy character to generate cross-promotional interest between two otherwise separate reader bases.

Market data for the issue is thin, reflecting its status as a low-print, low-demand direct-market one-shot rather than a heavily collected or graded title. Certified population remains small across all grades, with only a handful of 9.4 and 9.8 copies recorded and no sales activity below 9.4. Pricing at the top of the grade scale is modest, and the absence of any meaningful raw-market comps below near-mint indicates the book is not actively pursued outside of grade-completion or crossover-specialist collecting.

This is a book most likely to interest completists of the Conan Marvel license, collectors assembling Rune or Barry Windsor-Smith bibliographies, and dealers filling out 1990s crossover runs rather than mainstream key-issue buyers. Raw copies in low and mid grades trade for little more than cover price or bulk-bin pricing, while certified 9.8 copies carry a modest premium tied more to census scarcity than to underlying character demand. It is not expected to see significant appreciation absent a broader resurgence of interest in Rune or 1990s Conan crossovers.