The Lost World in Comics I
In a previous post I wrote about a seven page story, “Creatures of Fantasy”, that jammed Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs Read More
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Sword & Sorcery Archie Style!
Sword & Sorcery Archie style! Who knew? I was never a fan of Archie Comics, though like anyone in the 1970s and 1980s I read Read More
The Werewolves of The Beyond
The werewolves of Ace’s The Beyond are a mixed bag of hairy horrors. We get the traditional tale, usually attached to a love triangle. Occasionally Read More
Sir Butch and the Land of Waydaheckout
“Sir Butch” was a portal Fantasy set in Brooklyn and in lands of Imagination. It appeared irregularly in different Fawcett comics in 1942. Its creator Read More
Boris Karloff’s Tales of Heroic Fantasy
Tales of heroic fantasy can be found in the pages of Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery from Gold Key comics. “Mystery” was Silver Age code Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Golden Age One-Pagers
The Strangest Northerns presents some short Golden Age one-pagers. When comic books needed to fill pages they would resort to quick tales done in a Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Ghost Gallery and Drew Murdoch
With the success of Dr. Occult at DC in 1935, comic publishers created a host of ghost-busting heroes. At Fiction House, this was Drew Murdoch Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Space Terrors
If you missed the last one…. Science Fictional Horror tales have their own small niche in the larger spectrum of speculative fiction. It sadly has Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Trees – Part 2
If you missed the first part…. Continuing our look at tree monsters. Last time the trees were angry because of murders, taking their justified revenge Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Trees – Part 1
If you didn’t caught the bouquet last time… Plant monsters in the comics come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Some are tiny rootlets Read More