Welcome to the Portrait Gallery 2: 1954-1963
If you missed 1948-1953… Welcome back to the Portrait Gallery. Horror comics love a good painting and these stories are no exception. As we transition Read More
If you missed 1948-1953… Welcome back to the Portrait Gallery. Horror comics love a good painting and these stories are no exception. As we transition Read More
Welcome to the Portrait Gallery… where terror hangs on the wall. Where art meets madness and talent is used for evil. The old Gothics and Read More
If you missed the last one… “Diary of Doom” is a strange Northern that appeared in Adventures Into the Unknown #12 (August-September 1950). The author Read More
The Spirit of Frankenstein lives at ACG. Adventures Into the Unknown was the first true horror comic. Begun in 1948, the first two issues were Read More
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age changed very little from the horrible invaders of the 1940s. The robots of the 1950s tended to be in Read More
In Strangest Northerns we looked at the stories of Algernon Blackwood, George Allan England and August Derleth around the Wendigo legend. Northerns like Jane and Read More
Hey, how about some vampire comics? After our five-part series of ACG werewolves, it only made sense to do vampires comics next. The pre-Code horror Read More
If you missed Part One… The 1940s saw Frank Belnkap Long move into new areas as a professional writer. He is moving away from Lovecraft Read More
The terrors of Egypt were created largely out of ignorance. With centuries passing before the decoding of hieroglyphics, we had plenty of time to come Read More
“The Derelict Fleet” from Adventures Into the Unknown #47 (September 1953) is jam-packed with William Hope Hodgson-isms. Set in the Sargasso Sea, it draws from Read More