Marvel Movie Preview #1
As the name suggests, Marvel Movie Preview #1 was the first Marvel magazine of its kind. This one-shot publication adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land Read More
Category: Movies
Ray Harryhausen, Sword & Sorcery Filmmaker
If you know Fantasy films at all, you know Ray Harryhausen. As successor to Willis O’Brien, the creator of King Kong, Ray gave us so Read More
It’s Okay…I’m a Doctor!
The non-comic reading world got an introduction to mystical superheroes with Doctor Strange (2016) starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Now part of the Infinity War movies, little Read More
Jungle Jim
As a Tarzan fan you can’t but help notice all the knock offs and also-rans. Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cottage industry in the jungle. Read More
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Doc Savage Across the Genres
Doc Savage is hard to place in any one publisher’s pigeon-hole, which may be the reason Bantam Books reprinted the adventures with “Novel” on the Read More
The Vines of Tarzan – A Mystery
When I began research on plant monsters I initially thought there would be Tarzan stories or comics or something in it. I naturally associated plant Read More
The Eighth Wonder of the World
I stumbled upon a copy of the 1976 King Kong and realized, since I had the original and the 2005 Peter Jackson films, that a Read More
The Nursery Corner: Where Monsters Go To Die
This piece is really about toys. Only we have to take a detour first… For you see, the monsters of the 1930s and 1940s trickled Read More
You Don’t Know Dick
Phillip Kindred Dick was an unusual man. He was a science fiction writer, which (in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s at least) makes him Read More
We’re all Ed Wood Now
My wife and I recently purchased a big screen smart tv. What makes it so smart is beyond me, but with it we can watch Read More