Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Flowers
I have been wanting to reorganize my plant monsters from the Golden Age of Comics for a while. So what you will see is partly Read More
Category: Jungle Adventure
Pulp Artists in the Comics
Pulp Artists in the Comics are always a treat to me. After seeing them in Weird Tales or Amazing Stories, it’s fun to see their Read More
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales seems like a common occurrence but in 279 issues it only happened a handful to times. That handful gave Read More
Giant Spiders in the Pulps (Not Weird Tales)
Giant Spiders in the Pulps (Not Weird Tales) means we begin by saying what this piece is not about. Like the word “non-fiction”, we are Read More
The Horror Stories of James B. Hendryx (Jr.?)
Note: Ed Hulse pointed out that these stories were probably written by James B. Hendryx’s son, Jim Hendryx Jr. I think he is right. The Read More
The Return of Manape the Mighty
The return of Manape the Mighty did not happen in a Pulp magazine. Arthur J. Burks wrote the two stories for Astounding Stories of Super-Science Read More
Giant Ants in the Comics
Giant ants in the Comics are a given. The gigantic monsters appeared in the Pulps, so they have to be in the comic books as Read More
The Birth of the Savage Land
Pulp Beginnings The Savage Land from the Ka-zar comics had an unusual birth in Marvel Comics. It all begins with the Pulps. Bob Byrd wrote Read More
Giant Ants of the Pulps
Precursors Giant Ants of the Pulps seems like a no-brainer, right? Of course the Pulps were crawling with mad scientists creating giant bugs, or ones Read More
The Tarzan Parodies: Garzan the Magnificient
Garzan the Magnificient! You know you have arrived when they start poking fun at you. Tarzan received the parody treatment once he made it to Read More