Don Glut’s Tales of Sword & Sorcery
You are probably expecting a piece on Dagar the Invincible but Donald F. Glut wrote some other stories under this title and secreted them away Read More
Category: Cavemen
Cavemen (No Dinosaurs!)
In past posts I was largely interested in Cavemen & Dinosaurs (my phrase for the fantastic prehistoric, as best represented by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar Read More
Lords (And Ladies) of the Dino-Jungle
Stories about people finding dinosaurs hiding in strange places go back to Victorian times. As our knowledge of prehistoric life grew, so did our fantasies Read More
More Cavemen & Dinosaurs
In my last post, I talked about Nelson S. Bond’s “Exiles of the Dawn World” (Action Stories, December 1940) and how it used cavemen & Read More
Exiles of the Dawn World
Nelson S. Bond’s “Exiles of the Dawn World” (Action Stories, December 1940) was a Cavemen & Dinosaurs spectacular published by Fiction House. Combining the two Read More
The Wolf-Men by Frank Powell
It is odd for me to stumble onto a book that is thrill after thrill. Most old books have good bits but plenty of dull Read More
Willard E. Hawkins, High Mountain Scribe
Willard E. Hawkins (1887-1970) was a Pulp writer, an editor and newspaperman from Colorado. He didn’t write exclusively for the fantastic Pulps, selling Westerns and Read More
Jeffrey Catherine Jones: Early Sword & Sorcery Comics
Jeffrey Catherine Jones did some early Sword & Sorcery comics before and after the rise of old Conan. Some of these comics aren’t pure S&S Read More
One Million Years BC – The Comics!
Hal Roach produced One Million Years B.C. in 1940. The film starred Victor Mature as Tumak, Carole Landis as Loana and Lon Chaney Jr. as Read More
The Lost World in Comics II
If you missed the last one… Last time we looked at comic book adaptation’s of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 classic then went onto show some Read More