Marvel Treasury: Conan
Of the twenty-eight issues of Marvel Treasury (1974-1981), super-size format reprints 10×14 inches, four of them featured Conan the Barbarian. The only other character who Read More
Month: March 2020
Link: Hand-Held Thunder: The History of the Blaster
It made sense when Science Fiction went to the stars that the brave men and women who plumbed the depths of space would need weapons Read More
Tara, Outlaw of the Universe
When you search the word “Tara” in comic databases you usually get Tara on the Dark Continent, a Jungle Girl from the 1970s and 80s. Read More
Link: The Greater Gatsby
I finally got around to seeing the Baz Lurhmann-directed Gatsby starring Leonardo diCaprio and my reaction was odd. As a film it was okay, but Read More
Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed III
This go-round we are going to focus on old stuff. The range is 1929 to 1970. As always you might look at my selection and Read More
The Poison Belt Illustrations from Scoops
Scoops was a British weekly that published Science Fiction in tabloid format in 1934. The editor was Haydn Dimmock and the publisher was Pearson’s. Originally Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Berni Wrightson (1948-2017)
Berni was one of the early comic book artists who produced pre-Conan the Barbarian work and helped to develop an audience for Sword & Sorcery Read More
Manape the Mighty and Arthur J. Burks
The Pulps were the midwife to the comics. Nowhere was this more evident than at DC Comics. The big editors, Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger Read More
Link: Fanciful Tales of Time & Space: Fan Fire
Reading a scanned copy of the original Fanciful TalesĀ #1 (Fall 1936) fills me with so many conflicting emotions. Most of them good. On the one Read More
Vaseleos Garson: Planet Stories’ Masked Man
Planet Stories was a quarterly Pulp that ran from 1939 to 1955, delivering action-oriented space opera. While to some this is trash, it was the Read More