The Covers That Time Forgot!
When you are an avid Burroughian like myself, it is very hard to find images you haven’t seen countless times. You goggle at the Frazettas, Read More
Category: Adventure
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style
Fawcett Comics was the big rival for DC back in the 1940s. Science Fiction writers like Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester penned the craziest Read More
Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More
The Illustrators of The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle was famous already. He was the creator of Sherlock Holmes and he could have rested on those laurels (and big bucks) forever. Read More
Link: Manly Wade Wellman’s Lee Granger, Jungle King
Manly Wade Wellman has many feathers in his cap: famous Weird Tales writer, a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Edgar Award for True Crime, Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Skywald Style
Skywald Publications was a rival of Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella that flourished for about four years in the early 1970s. It offered non-Comics Code violence Read More
Jungleman, a Real Champ
“Jungleman” went through two distinctive phases, first with Champion Comics he was written by Worth B. Carnahan under the name Don Traver and was drawn Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
A. Hyatt Verrill – Science Fiction Writer
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) is an unlikely early Science Fiction writer. He traveled throughout North and South America and was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Read More
Frank R. Paul and The Land That Time Forgot
Hugo Gernsback began his all-Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, with a lot of reprints. This was because of several reasons. First, there wasn’t much SF Read More