Top Ten Monsters of Arthur Conan Doyle
The Top Ten Monsters of Arthur Conan Doyle offer us a nice mix of supernatural and natural fiends and terrors. It is well known that Read More
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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
The Lost World in Comics I
In a previous post I wrote about a seven page story, “Creatures of Fantasy”, that jammed Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Case of the Monkey Glands
The Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle might have been called “The Case of the Monkey Glands”. The Read More
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales
Gorillas and Apes in Weird Tales seems like a common occurrence but in 279 issues it only happened a handful to times. That handful gave Read More
Beowulf Comics: DC’s Dragonslayer #5 December 1975-January 1976
If you missed the last one… Beowulf Dragonslayer #5 (December 1975-January 1976) was, without doubt, the most Science Fictional of the six issues. Ancient swordsmen Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Horror of Studley Grange
“The Horror of Studley Grange” was one of a series from Stories From the Diary of a Doctor by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Style IV
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 Savage Land: A Pulp Heritage
The Savage Land from the Ka-Zar comics has an obvious Pulp heritage. Or is it all that obvious? Who was the first person to place Read More
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw share a common source, Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958). Adams was famous as a muckraker and newspaperman. He was Read More