The Visual History of the Banth
Clinton Pettee immortalized the image of the hero astride the back of a lion caught in a titanic struggle. That was for the cover of Read More
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Ice Planets
If you missed the last one… Ice Planets are part of the Space Opera landscape. Whether your first one was Star Trek‘s Sarpeidon (1969), Star Read More
The Islands of Hugo Gernsback
The Islands of Hugo Gernsback takes us in a slightly different direction than our last trip. Last time it was Weird Tales and terror tales. Read More
The Beast Plants: Monstrous Adventures
The Beasts Plants always appear in monstrous adventures. It is part of the formula from the beginning. And it makes sense. Giant, man-eating plants don’t Read More
To Kiss or Kill? The War on Sentiment
Unless you’ve read L. Sprague de Camp’s biography of H.P. Lovecraft or Sam Moskowitz’s Under the Moons of Mars (1970), you might not know that Read More
The Monsters of Pellucidar: At the Earth’s Core
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a master storyteller. One of his best tricks was to include monsters, creatures, call them what you will, in the best Read More
Fantastic Jungle Adventures
East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Read More
Link: The Jungle Cover Triangle
Looking at copies of Jumbo Tales I was first struck by how lush these covers were (and who could refuse buying them?), but secondly how Read More
Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More