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
Category: Superheroes
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
Hero Pulps: Champions of Excitement
The hero Pulp was a product of the 1930s and the Great Depression. In a time when all seemed doom and gloom, it was exciting Read More
DC’s World of Silver Age Robots
DC Comics loved a good robot cover. There was usually one of two themes: either gigantic, killer machines or duplicitous copies that needed to be Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1960-1961
If you missed the 1950s…. In the 1960s, comic covers truly discovered dinosaurs. Whole series now featured dinos every issue. DC and Dell were the Read More
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More
The Iceberg Theory
Hollywood is searching for icebergs. I don’t mean a pointless sequel to Titanic, but story ideas that have a long, unseen history behind them. I Read More
An Interview with D. K. Latta
D. K. Latta is a Canadian writer of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror as well as superheroes. His work began appearing in 1995 with “Ancient Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Nyoka Style
May 1947 gave us Nyoka the Jungle Girl #7 and a three-part adventure in the Arctic. Now if you aren’t familiar with Nyoka, she is Read More