Where I live there is a used book store (Half Price Books for those in Texas) close to the comic book store and I found all the Conan the Barbarian stories by the original creator in an anthology for about 5 bucks. Then at the comic book store I found a bunch of the marvel Conan comic books from 70s - 90s in the dollar bin. I spent about 40 bucks.
I feel like they could do an awesome adaptation of Conan today if they cared about good stories. An animated version too. I remember Nerdrotic saying that a few years ago amazon was considering an adaptation but one of the higher ups nixed it due to “toxic masculinity”.
Since I’ve given up on most entertainment today until the woke era ends (with few exceptions) I’m finding so much stuff that I couldn’t finish in my lifetime. I still have Babylon 5 to get through and tons of old British stuff.
I remember in a comments section a feminist was complaining about Red Sonja being sexist and “male gaze”. Someone asked her if she is equally offended by how little Conan wears. She had no comment
If you end up liking both, 'Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser' and 'Elric of Melnibone' are worth looking into as well.
I’ve heard of Elric and mean to check him out. I’ll look up the other one.