Nevertheless, Ali Recan's Alfa Yay�nlar� began publishing Conan in 1980 as a weekly comics, licensed from Kesim Ajans, a Turkish subcontractor of foreign copyrights. It became very popular with Turkish readers and was one of the bestselling comics in Turkey in the 1980s when the comics business was in a decline; it can be said that Alfa not only managed to survive thanks to Conan, but became one of the leading comics publishers of the decade on strenght of this comics. Alfa's first Conan series, which was close to pocket-size, lasted for 66 issues. Its second weekly series which began in 1982 on the other hand was larger than standard size and lasted for 86 issues. Most of the covers featured art from the American editions, but some had covers by Turkish artist �mer Muz (who signed his art simply as '�mer'). These two series published stories from Savage Sword of Conan, but in a frustratingly haphazard order. Simultanously with these weekly series, shorter lived bi-weekly series published stories from Conan the Barbarian. Alfa's third major series started in 1982 initially on a weekly basis, but eventually shifted into bi-weekly and later monthly periods; this series lasted for 204 issues in total until 1995. Meanwhile, several 'collection' series published reprints.
After a four year hiatus, Alfa began publishing reprints once again, this time in the correct chronological order. Curiously, Aksoy Yay�nlar� also began publishing a monthly Conan comics in 2000, so for several years Conan comics were put out by two different publishers! Ironically, both publishing houses went out of business in 2002. Since 2004, Conan is being published by Lal Kitap Yay�nlar�.
Source for Alfa and Aksoy chronology: Cengiz Ertem, Conan 1 (supplement of Ser�ven magazine; 2005)
Turkish-made Conan comics stories and parodies
In no. 57 (25.11.1983) of Alfa's second Conan weekly series, a five-page Conan adventure signed by Y�ld�r�m �rer and Sezai �di appearred. This adventure titled 'Zaman Kav�a��' ?(Time Crossing) brought together Conan and Superman who had falled down in time to the Dark Ages (�rer is also known to have made another Conan adventure which brought the Dark Age hero together with Tarzan this time). Beginning with no.66, a Conan parody titled Angut �ip�akkesergezer began to appear on the back covers of this series of Conan, most of these were signed by �rer.