The Visual History of the Banth
Clinton Pettee immortalized the image of the hero astride the back of a lion caught in a titanic struggle. That was for the cover of Read More
Category: Monsters
The Wolf-Men by Frank Powell
It is odd for me to stumble onto a book that is thrill after thrill. Most old books have good bits but plenty of dull Read More
Top Ten Doc Savage Novels For Halloween
Lester Dent (and the other Kenneth Robeson’s who penned the Doc Savage super-sagas) was always conscious of a certain atmospheric need in a good story. Read More
The Vampires’ Greatest Hits
In Richard Dalby’s Dracula’s Brood, Rare Vampire Stories by Friends and Contemporaries of Bram Stoker (1987) he lists the nine stories that are so familiar, Read More
The Vampires of ACG – Part 4 (1953-1954)
If you missed the last one… Our last batch of vampires from ACG. As before, most of the writers are not known, except for Richard Read More
The Vampires of ACG – Part 3 (1952-1953)
If you missed the last one… This time around we will see several predatory vamps, both male and female, but we also get some more Read More
The Vampires of ACG – Part 2 (1951-1952)
If you missed the last one…(and you might want to go back because I added three stories to the last one…) As we saw last Read More
The Gorillas of DC’s Strange Adventures
In a previous post I mentioned DC’s predilection for gorilla covers in a piece on Arthur J. Burk’s “Manape the Mighty”. Well, it’s about time Read More
Giant Spiders in Golden Age Comics III
If you missed the last one (and you probably did)… The end of the Golden Age saw fewer superheroes and Jungle Lords and more pure Read More
Giant Spiders in Golden Age Comics II
More re-organizing. Just found ten more! So I recommend you go back to Part 1 first. You may begin to see more Jungle Lords and Read More