29th November 2003, pencil, 13.5x21cm.

Robert E Howard's hero returns in this conceptual sketch, partially inspired by the Pit fighting scenes in the movie Conan the Barbarian, and the novelization of the Oliver Stone/John Milius screenplay by L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.  An enslaved teenage Conan is forced to fight for his life in the Pit in gladiatorial combat to the death, whilst warlords and crowds above wager on who will live and who will die...  Needless to say, Conan the Champion's greatest prize became life itself...