Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1966-1967
If you missed 1964-1965… 1966-1967 was the last year of multi-covers. The horror magazines have moved on leaving the prehistoric series to themselves but even Read More
Category: G. W. Thomas
Hero Pulps: Champions of Excitement
The hero Pulp was a product of the 1930s and the Great Depression. In a time when all seemed doom and gloom, it was exciting Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Tom Sutton (1937-2002)
Tom Sutton was a vastly under-rated comic book artist, largely due to his disinterest in superheroes. He is probably best remembered for his work in Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1964-1965
1964 saw the dinosaurs going primarily to comics about prehistoric settings like Turok, Son of Stone, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and Korak at Gold Key Read More
Donald Bayne Hobart: Comic Book Storyteller
Donald Bayne Hobart (1898-1970) (aka Hobart Donbayne, aka Bayne Hobart) was a prolific Pulpster especially in the 1940s. He wrote many of the Masked Rider Read More
Link: Fritz Leiber: Pastiche or Passé
Should a Mythos author write Lovecraftian pastiches? Is the Mythos anything, really, but a colossal pastiche of Lovecraft? Is the Mythos’ value lessened by its Read More
Lin Carter’s People of the Dragon
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More
DC’s World of Silver Age Robots
DC Comics loved a good robot cover. There was usually one of two themes: either gigantic, killer machines or duplicitous copies that needed to be Read More
Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
Otis Adelbert Kline’s Doctor Dorp
This post begins: Otis Adelbert Kline is probably remembered best for his Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiches set on Venus and the Moon as well as Read More