The Werewolves of ACG – Part 3 (1952)
If you missed Part 2 The stories for this segment all came from four issues of Adventures Into the Unknown in 1952. The writers, who Read More
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King Kull Covers
Conan the Barbarian will always be Robert E. Howard’s top dog but there are those of us who enjoy Kull just as much. (In Robert Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 2 (1951-1952)
If you miss Part One… By the second half of 1951 Adventures Into the Unknown was hitting its lycanthropic stride with were-creatures in five issues Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Vincente Alcazar (1944-)
Spanish-born artist, he found work in America thanks to Gray Morrow and Neal Adams who recommended him to publishers. Much of his work was in Read More
How To Become a Mythos Icon
Doing some research for this blog I was struck by a fact — if you want your Mythos baddie to become iconic, to have thousands Read More
Pulp Cover Vampires
When people think of garish Horror and Suspense Pulp cover art they often arrive at the idea that there are many that have vampires on Read More
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Style
American Comics Group had a horror title called Out of the Night that ran from February-March 1952 to October-November 1954 with 17 issues. These were Read More
Swords vs. Tentacles
The 1970s saw an explosion in Sword & Sorcery comics and with it a trope that has become almost a cliche: the tentacled monster. The Read More
Horror Magazine Illustrations & Covers
The artwork from Weird Tales was often as engrossing and unusual as the fiction it illustrated. Names like Virgil Finlay, Boris Dolgov, Lee Brown Coye, Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ernie Chan (1940-2012)
Ernesto Chan was born in the Phillipines in 1940. He came to America in 1970 but had to work as Ernie Chua because of an Read More