The Terror Garden: The Orchid of Asia
The Terror Garden has many orchids in it. Stories like “The Orchid Terror” from 1911 are typical as it that classic “The Purple Terror” (1899) Read More
Category: Cryptids
The Robots of Batman!
The Robots of Batman really follow the Robots of Superman (which we did here.) So let’s start with what you won’t see here. I have Read More
Cavemen & Dinosaurs in Anthology Comics
In 1952, Frank Frazetta drew the first issue of Thun’Da King of the Congo, showing the right way to do comics about lost worlds. The Read More
The Central Alberta Fanfest on August 19, 2023
I will be speaking at the Central Alberta Fanfest on August 19th at 1:45 PM. This is in Ponoka, AB. My topic is “Alberta Read More
Snow Beasts! Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Comics – Part II
If you missed the last one… The late 1960s and early 1970s was a time of great interest in the Occult and the unexplained. Books Read More
Snow Beasts! Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Comics – Part I
Snow Beasts! They have many names: Yeti, Bigfoot or Sasquatch, depending on where you are. I called them YiBS in a previous post. I mentioned Read More
Peter Tremayne’s Snowbeast!
If you are like me you saw Snow Beast in 1977 with Bo Svenson. Pillared for being Jaws on a ski hill, it was remade Read More