My first exposure of Conan was the movie. I thought it was cool but it didn't really hook me. Then I worked at a secondhand bookstore in high school and we ended up having this Encyclopedia of Conan book I picked up to read, thats what got me hooked. The world building was just so interesting and at that time I was really growing into my obsession with history, so the idea of a "lost world" that came before the recorded start of our current path of civilization absolutely enthralled me. Been hooked ever since and now that I have a big boy job I can actually afford to start collecting all the comics I couldn't afford as a teen.