Link: Ghosts & Laughs: Comedians as Ghostbreakers
The idea of a ‘funny ghostbreaker’ begins not in a movie, but on the stage. Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Read More
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Link: The War of the Worlds: Adapt or Die
HG Wells inspired so many branches of the Science Fiction tree: time travel, human-animal hybrids, invisibility, moon men, giant animals, super intelligent animals, and alien Read More
Link: The Darker Drink: Pseudonymous Saint
The Saint series by Leslie Charteris is known for its highly adventurous flare. In fact, Charteris really created the James Bond film feel. If you Read More
Link: Funny Mythos: Comedy & Tentacles
A new comic book called Arcane Secrets by Angel A. Svoboda (Amigo Comics) got me thinking that there aren’t many Lovecraftian comedies out there. In Read More
Sheena of the Jumbo: Zolne Rowich
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle deserves the crown as Jungle Queen. Beating Wonder Woman by a month, she was the first comic to feature a Read More
Thun’Da, King of the Congo
Thun’Da began late in the Jungle Lord game. Roger Drum, air force pilot literally falls into the position of vine swinger to become Thun’Da of Read More
The Scale of the Fantastic
The following is presented partly as an explanation of what I see as valid material for this blog. Do you think of Sherlock Holmes as Read More
Charlton’s Space 1999: The Comic Book
With the spectacular failure of U. F. O., Gerry Anderson tried to pull a gem from the ashes with Space 1999. Charlton Comics got the Read More
Link: The Junk Box: MIMP Comics
You’re a grown-ass man and you’re not supposed to play with toys. But like any good fanboy I have my favorites. My thark from Trendmasters Read More
The Land Unknown (1957)
The Land Unknown Trailer Director: Virgil W. VogelCast: Jock Mahoney and Shirley PattersonShawn SmithWilliam ReynoldsHenry BrandonDouglas KennedyPhil Harvey An expedition to the Antarctic discovers a Read More