Solomon Kane is a comic book series from Dark Horse Comics, starring a version of Robert E. Howard's puritan wanderer Solomon Kane.
Solomon Kane provides examples of:
- Adaptation Amalgamation: Death's Black Riders, adapted from a fragment of an unfinished story, is expanded to include a separate, unrelated tale, The Rattle of Bones, as a second act and interlude.
- Angelic Abomination: The 'angels' of Castle of the Devil are horrific in both appearance and actions.
- Comic-Book Adaptation: The comics are based on the original Solomon Kane stories by Robert E. Howard. Some are direct adaptations, some are based on unfinished fragments, and some are new tales.
- Inn of No Return: The isolated inn Zumgespaltenen Schädel, which Kane translates into English as The Cleft Skull, has an innkeeper who kills his guests and feeds their bodies to the wolves of the forest.
- In the Back: The treacherous bandit Gaston the Butcher has Kane held at gunpoint when the crazed innkeeper of the Inn of No Return they're staying in puts a sword through his head from behind. It's repaid when a vengeful animated skeleton, freed by Gaston, grabs the innkeeper from behind shortly afterwards.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: From some angles, the silhouettes of the monstrous 'riders' of Death's Black Riders can be mistaken for a mounted man - which is exactly what happens when they first appear. They're actually a single being, similar to a centaur in shape, with a huge second mouth in their torso where 'horse' and 'rider' join. The front legs of the 'horse' are long, flexible and end in human hands
. Nobody who sees one in good lighting would ever mistake it for a horse, a man or a traditional centaur. - Playing with Fire: The touch of the black riders ignites anything flammable, and seems to accelerate the fire as well. When they first appear, a touch from one of them turns a wooden wagon into a flaming deathtrap.
- Resurrection Revenge: The Russian magician murdered by the innkeeper of Zumgespaltenen Schädel swears that he'll return to kill his murderer. And his animated skeleton does.
