Spock’s Brain and Other Missing Cerebrum
Brain-stealers! As a kid, I can recall the sheer terror of Doctor McCoy saying to Captain Kirk: “His brain is gone.” Aliens have stolen Mr. Read More
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Sword & Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed VI
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
The Tin Robot – An Evolutionary Search
When I read old comics, especially those based on cartoon characters I notice robots. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, they all encounter Read More
John Wyndham’s Planet Plane and The Sleepers of Mars
John Wyndham’s Planet Plane (The Passing Show, May 2-June 20, 1936) and its sequel “The Sleepers of Mars” (Tales of Wonder #2, March 1938) form Read More
Tarzan and The Time Trap
Tarzan and “The Time Trap” appeared in TV Tornado Annual 1968, an annual usually sold around Christmas time. The author and artist are not known. Read More
Link: Ghosts at Christmas: Dickens to Davies
Charles Dickens gets the credit for the idea of a ghost story at Christmas. We all know Scrooge, whether it’s Alastair Sim, Bill Murray, Patrick Read More
The Time of Your Death
We are having the time of your death! Time has always been a focus for unusual tales, even before H. G. Wells’s masterpiece “The Time Read More
If Your DC Series Is Getting Old…Just Add Monsters!
Movie Landmarks If your DC series is getting old…Just Add Monsters! I mean it worked for Universal Pictures, didn’t it? Dracula, The Wolfman and good Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted Part 1
Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted is a good example of using brand recognition to sell a product. The comic strip that appeared on Read More
The Time Machine in the Pulps
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was a natural for Pulp magazine republishing. It was a seminal work of Science Fiction establishing the concept Read More