Are We Not Men? Moreau’s Island
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1897) was written by H. G. Wells as a fundraiser and a pamphlet against animal vivisection. It is usually thought Read More
Category: Jungle Adventure
Just Add Monsters: Conan Rewrites
L. Sprague de Camp found himself in the position of editor and collaborator on the Conan series after 1951, when he read Conan the Conqueror. Read More
John Murray Reynolds, Forgotten Pulpster?
John Murray Reynolds (1901-1993) is a writer who was on my radar because I saw his name occasionally in Weird Tales or Planet Stories. I Read More
Manape the Mighty and Arthur J. Burks
The Pulps were the midwife to the comics. Nowhere was this more evident than at DC Comics. The big editors, Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger Read More
Clayton’s Jungle Stories: The Creeping Terror
Jungle Stories is usually thought of as a Fiction House pulp from 1938, running alongside Planet Stories, Indian Stories and North-West Stories. But there was Read More
Mangani, the Language of the Jungle
Literary types may act proud over the slang in Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange or the linguistic hybrids of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake but fanboys and girls Read More
The Sentient Trees of Science Fiction
The idea of sentient trees in Science Fiction had become one of the genre’s silly old cliches by the 1960s. John Wyndham’s The Day of Read More
Plant Monsters in the Comics II
If you missed the first crop… The comics grew out of the Pulps like a bud on a branch….plant metaphor enough for you? Still, it Read More
Link: How To Get Your Name on a Magazine
Magazines have been around for over 350 years. The first general interest magazine in English was The Gentleman’s Magazine, beginning in 1731. Magazines with people’s Read More
Alex Nino’s Korak, Son of Tarzan
April-May 1974 something strange happened. DC’s Tarzan went from 36 pages to 100 pages! Issues #230 to 235 ballooned to giant issues of Edgar Rice Read More