The Strangest Northerns: Franken-Style
Today Strangest Northerns gives you thrills Franken-style. The fact that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) ends in the Arctic with Victor chasing his terrible creation over Read More
Category: G. W. Thomas
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1994
If you missed 1993… The year after Jurassic Park saw things progress with three strong series: Tim Truman’s Turok Dinosaur Hunter, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (but Read More
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
Link: Henry Kuttner: Mythos Mistake?
Henry Kuttner has come back into the public eye with The Last Mimsey (2007), a science fiction film about children who receive educational toys from Read More
Welcome to the Jungle…
In which the author tries to explain to himself why he still loves jungle stories… The jungles of the world are places of adventure. Whether Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ken Barr (1933-2016)
Ken Barr was a Scottish artist who made his mark as a paperback cover man and with Marvel’s Black & White magazines like Doc Savage, Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosur Comics: 1993
If you missed 1990-1992… Steven Spielberg released Jurassic Park on June 9, 1993 and the dino world exploded. Not since 1973 had such a year Read More
The Bats of DC
Berni Wrightson’s cover for House of Mystery #195 (October 1971) got me to thinking how DC Comics made that swooping bat figure their own, and Read More
I Steal Your Blood! Doctors of Horror!
One of the standard scenarios in Pulp horror magazines is the person stuck in a Gothic house, that either through tricks or merely atmosphere, seems Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1990-1992
If you missed the 1980s… Jurassic Park is on the horizon, with Spielberg’s film making dinosaurs cool again. Here is that last moment before the Read More