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
Category: Fantasy
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
Quasi-Sword & Sorcery Comic – March 1954
Well, what can I say? Another one. This time in Ace’s The Beyond #25. It appeared in March 1954, six months before Charlton’s “Quest of Read More
Henry Hasse Part 1: 1930-1940s
Henry Louis Hasse (1913-1977) began in Science Fiction fandom, writing letters to his favorite magazines: Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales and Astounding Stories. His Read More
Quasi- Sword & Sorcery Comic – September 1954
Back in December I wrote about an early heroic fantasy comic and I called the piece “Quasi-Sword & Sorcery – November 1952”. “Journey to Chaos” Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed IX
If you missed the last one… Alaric the Witchborn “Born to Exile” by Phyllis Eisenstein (F&SF, August 1971) is the first tale of Alaric, a Read More
The Shadow of Fu Manchu in Weird Tales
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) created Fu Manchu in 1911, with the first section of the serial appearing in October 1912. “The Zayat Kiss” opens the novel Read More
Magic Carpet Tales: The Other Weird Tales
Magic Carpet Tales are the other Weird Tales. The owners of “The Unique Magazine” had another short-lived publication that was sister to the world’s most Read More
Lin Carter: The Clark Ashton Smith Collabs
Lin Carter wrote eight Clark Ashton Smith Collabs over fifteen years. Each couplet appeared in its own distinct publication. The first two were sold to Read More