Sword & Sorcery Archie Style!
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
Category: Sword & Sorcery
Sir Butch and the Land of Waydaheckout
“Sir Butch” was a portal Fantasy set in Brooklyn and in lands of Imagination. It appeared irregularly in different Fawcett comics in 1942. Its creator Read More
Boris Karloff’s Tales of Heroic Fantasy
Tales of heroic fantasy can be found in the pages of Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery from Gold Key comics. “Mystery” was Silver Age code Read More
Quintessential Lost Race/World Library
Quintessential Lost Race/World Library is a no-brainer after our two previous libraries.If you missed them, go Ghost Stories Fantasy. The Lost Race (or Lost World) Read More
Quasi-Sword & Sorcery Comic – March 1954
Well, what can I say? Another one. This time in Ace’s The Beyond #25. It appeared in March 1954, six months before Charlton’s “Quest of Read More
Pulp Artists in the Comics
Pulp Artists in the Comics are always a treat to me. After seeing them in Weird Tales or Amazing Stories, it’s fun to see their Read More
Quasi- Sword & Sorcery Comic – September 1954
Back in December I wrote about an early heroic fantasy comic and I called the piece “Quasi-Sword & Sorcery – November 1952”. “Journey to Chaos” Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed IX
If you missed the last one… Alaric the Witchborn “Born to Exile” by Phyllis Eisenstein (F&SF, August 1971) is the first tale of Alaric, a Read More
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales seems like a common occurrence but in 279 issues it only happened a handful to times. That handful gave Read More
Lin Carter: The Clark Ashton Smith Collabs
Lin Carter wrote eight Clark Ashton Smith Collabs over fifteen years. Each couplet appeared in its own distinct publication. The first two were sold to Read More