Johnny Peril, Occult Adventurer
Howard Purcell (1918-1981) created Johnny Peril almost by accident. “Just a Story” was a strip that had no real continuing character until Johnny stumbled along. Read More
Category: G. W. Thomas
The Strangest Northerns: A Relic of the Pleistocene
“A Relic of the Pleistocene” (Collier’s Weekly, January 12, 1901) by Jack London is an odd tale of the Northern trails. Inspired by the discovery Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Menace of Mastodon Valley
“The Menace of Mastodon Valley” by Kenneth Gilbert (1889-1973) is one of the strangest Northerns I have ever read. Gilbert is best remembered as a Read More
The Curse of the Bulaga
“The Curse of the Bulaga” is a strange Southern (a tale of the South Pole as opposed to a Northern) that appeared in Avon’s Eerie Read More
Sword & Sorcery in The Rook
The Rook was a Warren character who got his start in Eerie before moving onto his own magazine in October 1979. While Dane’s adventures are Read More
George B. Beattie: A Brief Glimpse
George B. Beattie was an English writer of Science Fiction. He produced only four stories for Hugo Gernsback. We know very little about GBB, though Read More
Leopard Girl’s Dread Domain
“Leopard Girl’s Dread Domain” caught my eye because it has a jungle girl in it. I’ve seen plenty of jungle girls but not usually in Read More
Manly Wade Wellman’s Werewolves
Manly Wade Wellman wrote hundreds of fantasy and horror stories featuring monsters including werewolves. He wrote of them early in the pages of Weird Tales Read More
Edgar Rice Conan Verne in Seven Pages
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and maybe just a dash of H. Rider Haggard, and all in seven pages. Ace Magazines published Read More
Abner J. Gelula: Scientifictionist
Abner J. Gelula (1906-1985) was one of the early scientific hobbyists who wrote occasional “Scientifiction” stories. According to his “Meet the Author” he was based Read More