The Strangest Northerns: Gold Key Style
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a successful television show by producer Irwin Allen (1916-1991). The show was based on a film of Read More
Category: Adventure
Link: The City of Spiders: H. Warner Munn’s Forgotten Classic
The early issues of Weird Tales are full of surprises. They leap out at you when you aren’t expecting them. The stories before 1935 are Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 1
….“you’re Professor Jules de Grandin, the author of Accelerated Evolution?” “The Horror on the Links” originally appeared in Weird Tales, October 1925. A girl is Read More
The Comic Books of Patricia Highsmith
Before Patricia Highsmith became a bestselling Mystery writer, penning such classics as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, she worked in comics. Read More
Link: A Bike on the Moon: The Science Fiction of Mickey Spillane
There was one job in comics that was lower than the guy who cleaned the ink pens. That poor fool was the one who had Read More
The Thriller: Not Quite the Saint
Some writers become so identified with one character you don’t often think of other characters they created. Erle Stanley Gardner is a perfect example. Perry Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style II
“Mary Marvel’s Rescue at the North Pole” (Mary Marvel #5, September 1946) saw two brothers work together on this strange tale of the North Pole. Read More
Spear and Fang: A Prehistoric Premiere
“Spear and Fang” (Weird Tales, July 1925) was Robert E. Howard’s premiere as an author. He was only nineteen when it appeared in Weird Tales. Read More
Link: Skull the Slayer: Polemic or Pulp?
1975 saw two things happen almost simultaneously. Marv Wolfman came to Marvel comics and he created Skull the Slayer. Who? Yes, Skull was not the Read More
SF Pulp Authors in Boys’ Life
Boys’ Life is the magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. It began publishing in March 1911 and is still going to this day. The Read More