Four Color Dragons II
If you missed the last one… Last time I wrote about dragons with an eye to showing many different kinds of dragons from space monsters Read More
Category: Fantasy
Conan the Barbarian: Archie Style!
If you missed the last one… Everything Archie #111 (May 1984) offers a new Conan for the 1980s. An epic, like all good Fantasy, begins Read More
Conan vs. Werewolves
Conan vs. Werewolves is a problematic title. Conan as Robert E. Howard wrote him never met an actual werewolf. Howard wrote only six pieces that Read More
Giant Insects in the Comics: Bees
The idea of gigantic bugs including bees began with H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (Pearson’s Magazine, December 1903-June 1904). Wells applied it Read More
Fantastic Ferdy
Prize Comics published a children’s comic called Wonderland Comics from Summer 1945 to April-May 1947. Of the nine issues, eight of them contained the tales Read More
Bronze Age Dragons: 1980s
If you missed the last one… The 1980s offered some new wrinkles to old dragons. One of these was the new paper quality of independent Read More
The Dark Worlds Podcast: Oliver Brackenbury
M. D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas talk with Oliver Brackenbury about Sword & Sorcery, fundraising, New Edge Sword & Sorcery and other topics like Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 12: 1982-1983
If you missed the last one…. The end has finally come. Warren Publications lost Louise Jones, the top editor in 1980, to be replaced by Read More
The Lost Cities of Conan
In the last post, we looked at the lost cities in the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of Robert E. Howard’s commercial inspirations, Read More