I was all set to pick King Kull, my favorite sword-and-sorcery character, until I saw Inigo Montoya near the bottom of the list... and then it was no contest!

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Have to go with Zorro. I saw the Frank Langella Mark of Zorro and was waving around every stick I could find.

ooh, this is tough call.

King Arthur gets in on the basis of Malory, TH WHite, and Mary Stewart - all favourites of mine as a young reader.

I picked Kull as my representative REH character, though I like Conan, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn as well.

I love ERB's sword & planet romances but John Carter isn't my favourite character so I could use Other to pick a different ERB character, probably Tan Hadron, the protagonist of A Fighting Man of Mars, my favourite of the Barsoom books. I also liked the assassin character in The Master-mind of Mars, forget his name. Carson of Venus might qualify too, though to be honest I don't recall sword-fighting being as prominent in the Venus series as in the Mars.

The Three Musketeers had to be on my list. Maybe the best adventure series ever written, for me. The Count of Monte Cristo rivals it, but I don't think the Count used his sword-duelling skills that much in the book. If I have to choose one Musketeer it would probably be Athos, even over D'Artagnan, at least in the first book.

I chose Valkyrie as my representative superhero comics character, though I'm wondering if I should have saved that pick for something else, because I don't really think of her as a sword-fighter even though the sword is her primary weapon - perhaps because she doesn't often get to fight another swords-person in her superhero universe.

Other: if I didn't use this for ERB's Tan Hadron I would probably go with one of Roger Zelazny's Amber characters, most likely Corwin, the protagonist of the first series, though Benedict would be a worthy choice as well. Zelazny might be my favourite writer for describing fight or personal combat scenes in general, and he doesn't let you down with the sword (and other) fights in those first five Amber books.

I feel like there should be more mythological figures but many of them were known as much or even more for the spear than for the sword - Achilles and the other Achaeans from the Iliad, or Cu Chulain from Irish myth and legend, for example.

I also fell I should have found a spot for some famous Japanese samurai characters - Yojimbo, Zatoichi, Lone Wolf, Musashi, ...

Zorro - Tyrone Powers made it my favorite
Three Musketeers - Great Tales, Action, and Excitement
Lion-O - Loved the Original Thundercats and the Swords of Omens
King Arthur - Romance and Sheer Legend
Conan - Great Legend and Lore


In that order starting with Zorro and ends with Conan.

Or can you?  

Swordsmen, not listed that I might have chosen; 

Corwin of Amber.  

Fafhrd and/or The Gray Mouser

Also, Link from Zelda is a big one. I also like Samurai Jack.