Bronze Age Dragons: 1980s
If you missed the last one… The 1980s offered some new wrinkles to old dragons. One of these was the new paper quality of independent Read More
If you missed the last one… The 1980s offered some new wrinkles to old dragons. One of these was the new paper quality of independent Read More
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox begins in the 1950s with the creation of the first true S&S comic book hero, Crom the Read More
1939 was the Year of the Robot! So many stories, comics, movies from 1939 to 1942 were influenced by the World’s Fair, and one exhibit, Read More
Every fantasy role-playing adventure, many sword & sorcery tales, any number of heroic fantasy comics, all seem to begin in a tavern in an inn. Read More
“The Shoggoths” at Skywald is a good reminder for someone like myself who got involved with the Cthulhu Mythos in the 1980s when Call of Read More
Sword & Sorcery Archie style! Who knew? I was never a fan of Archie Comics, though like anyone in the 1970s and 1980s I read Read More
Golden Age slime monsters in the comics take their inspiration from the very first story to appear in Weird Tales (March 1923). “Ooze” by Anthony Read More
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian is special. I have avoided it for a while because I really wanted to do it properly. I want Read More
Snake gods and were-serpents are the rarest of creatures! Finding Pulp stories with snakes in them is not hard. Finding weird tales or even Science Read More
All the stories I selected this time came from magazines first, ones that occasionally published good Sword & Sorcery. You can find them if you Read More