Tomahawk and King Colosso
Tomahawk and King Colosso seems like an odd pairing until you remember that the long running series (September-October 1950 to May-June 1972) did all kinds Read More
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Science Fiction Writers Who Wrote Westerns
The collection Westerns of the 40s (1977) surprised me when I saw who the editor was, Damon Knight. That pillar of the Science Fiction community Read More
Tomahawk and the Dinosaurs
Tomahawk and the Dinosaurs? The brave frontiersman met dinosaurs eight times in his lengthy career in the Old West. The character began as a back-up Read More
The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe
If you missed the last one… The amazing adventures of Buster Crabbe did not begin in the comics but in the movie serials. Larry “Buster” Read More
The Ormolu Clock and Other Timepieces
“The Ormolu Clock” by August Derleth appeared in Weird Tales for January 1950. It was one of his later ghost stories not connected to the Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Vengeance of the Vikings
“Vengeance of the Vikings” was a strange Northern that appeared in St. John’s Weird Horrors #7 (April 1953). (The cover of this comic by William Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Hyperboreans
In 1961, Ian Cameron published his first novel, The Lost Ones. In 1974 it would be re-released as The Island at the Top of the Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Airboy Returns – Part 2
If you missed the last one… Airboy Returns – Part 2 picks up right where we left off. Airboy is in the Arctic to solve Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Airboy Returns – Part 1
Airboy returns to the Arctic in a two-parter featuring frozen dinos and mammoths. His last adventure had been in Airboy V6n5 (Jun 1949) when he Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Not Only Dead Men
“Not Only Dead Men” (Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1942) by A. E. van Vogt is a Golden Age classic along with the other stories he wrote Read More