Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 2000-2005
If you missed 1997-1999… The beginning of the new millennium proved to be quite a disappointment for dinosaur comic fans. The Disney film Dinosaur appeared Read More
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Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1997-1999
If you missed 1995-1996…. With the end of the decade we see the last of the Jurassic Park Topps franchise. The Budd Root Cavewoman series Read More
The Doc Savage Black & White Magazine
Marvel Comics pursued a line of black & white magazines in the early 1970s. The idea, no doubt, came from the success of the Warren Read More
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosur Comics: 1993
If you missed 1990-1992… Steven Spielberg released Jurassic Park on June 9, 1993 and the dino world exploded. Not since 1973 had such a year Read More
The Bats of DC
Berni Wrightson’s cover for House of Mystery #195 (October 1971) got me to thinking how DC Comics made that swooping bat figure their own, and Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1990-1992
If you missed the 1980s… Jurassic Park is on the horizon, with Spielberg’s film making dinosaurs cool again. Here is that last moment before the Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Blackhawk Style
“Aurora, Queen of the Arctic” (Blackhawk #51, February 1951) from Quality Comics, offers a Pulp style Northern with a mysterious siren who draws men into Read More
The Shattered Men: An Excerpt
Jack Mackenzie offers up the first exciting chapter of his new novel, The Shattered Men. In the first story in the Wild Incorporated series, you Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1966-1967
If you missed 1964-1965… 1966-1967 was the last year of multi-covers. The horror magazines have moved on leaving the prehistoric series to themselves but even Read More