New Talent Showcase: Heroic Fantasy Edition
DC Comics had a comic book with the expressed purpose of promoting new writers, artists and letterers called New Talent Showcase, later Talent Showcase. It Read More
Tag: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: The Comic Ads
It’s not hard for some us to remember Dungeons & Dragons (we never used the “Advanced” much. We just called it “Dee-N-Dee”) back in the Read More
Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt
This is the first in a series of posts about the original 196os-1970s Conan paperbacks. I haven’t worried about Howard versus pastichers or any of Read More
The Definition of Sword & Sorcery
I don’t waste much time on defining Sword & Sorcery but it seems to be a thing again on the Internet. Men like Lin Carter Read More
Home is the Hunter
If you missed the last one… As Robert Louis Stevenson said in “Requiem”… “Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from Read More
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox begins in the 1950s with the creation of the first true S&S comic book hero, Crom the Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XI
If you missed the last one… Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XI is all about the 1980s. Here are five stories from Read More
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
Giant Spiders in Heroic Fantasy Comics
Giant spiders in Heroic Fantasy comics have been a mainstay since 1950. Inspired by Fantasy and Pulp fiction before it, the trend starts with Lord Read More
Two Heroic Fantasy Classics: Poul Anderson
Fantasy in the 1950s Poul Anderson wrote two classic Fantasy novels pretty much one after the other. Three Hearts and Three Lions appeared in F&SF, Read More